Ikram G.

Software Engineer at Google, London, UK

London Area, United Kingdom

About

An aspiring Computer Systems connoisseur (and a cinema buff, but that's beside the point). I enjoy learning more about topics like Computer Networks, Security, Distributed Systems, our interaction with the OS and how the performance of mobile and tablet devices can be improved.

Experience

  • Google (4 yrs)
    • Software Engineer
      May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

      Improving the performance of the Android platform as a system, through tracing, profiling and other observability methods. Building an AI agent to help solve perfetto Android metric regressions within the Android SystemUI process.

    • Software Engineer
      Jul 2022 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Working on the Android Multitasking and Windowing team. More specifically improving Android's Picture-in-Picture mode and other multitasking features

  • Lead TA for Networks at Amherst College
    Feb 2022 - May 2022 · 4 mos

    - Graded projects of more than 70 students in the Networks course (COSC-283) by investigating and running scripts to test network layer simulations and socket programs. - Facilitated two one-hour help sessions each week to help students with technical issues.

  • Head of Android Development at RiseUp
    Feb 2021 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

    - Helping develop a new social media platform for the sole creation, engagement, and viewing of social media challenges

  • Amherst (Part-time · 2 yrs 5 mos)
    • IT Specialist
      Sep 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Working at IT Help Desk and providing assistance to IT staff, students and faculty members

    • Computer Science Department Peer Tutor
      Jan 2020 - May 2020 · 5 mos

      Held one-on-one tutoring sessions with a student in Introduction to Computer Science I course.

    • Physics TA
      Jan 2020 - May 2020 · 5 mos

      A lab TA and Grader in a physics intro course (PHYS-109).

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow at Physics Department- Professor Larry Hunter’s Lab, Amherst College
    Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 · 3 mos

    Assisted in the development of a LabVIEW program, which was controlling UV and YAG lasers, as well as multiple Arduino boards; accomplished this to increase the number of photons cycled by Thallium Fluoride molecules up to 50 - as observed from photodetectors - in search for time-reversal symmetry violations. (https://tinyurl.com/y5wt99xh)