Ahmed Masud

Leading development of Resiliate — an AI-enhanced self-defending filesystem with sub-100ms policy enforcement and <0.1s ransomware rollback, targeting Azure Marketplace enterprise deployment.

• US Patent 12,045,224 — Methods For Self-Aware, Self-Healing, And Self-Defending Data (Cybernetic Engrams®): data blocks encoded as neural network weights for active self-defense and verification
• F5 Networks: deployed Resiliate for real-time anomaly detection processing ~1 billion HTTP requests/hour in production
• Designed 5-layer security orchestration (SoDAC, SoDynTBAC, SoNFSv4ACL, SoBibaMIC, SoBLPMAC) — NIST 800-53 High-Impact across FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA, DoD IL4/IL5
• Built enterprise-grade platform: 26 Rust crates, 1M+ lines of code, 42 git submodules
• SINET 2010 Innovator Award — National Press Club, Washington DC

Cybersecurity consultancy serving 100+ enterprise clients across government, healthcare, and financial sectors.

• CWID 2009 Blue Ribbon Winner — Trustifier KSE platform achieved DoD Red Team's first-ever failed breach attempt in cross-domain scenario
• NIST 800-53 High-Impact mappings across all 16 control families at AUGMENTED levels across five product ecosystems
• Kaiser Permanente (~2014): designed session-aware HTTP/HTTPS proxy (WebSphere/Java) that transparently mobilized desktop apps to iPad — zero rewrites, zero downtime
• Built and commercialized KSE, RYU, Fahrenheit, HPCE, CloudFort, Luminate — serving Fortune 500 and federal agency clients
• TOGAF and SABSA-grounded enterprise architecture; OAuth2/OIDC/SAML at protocol level across multi-tenant IAM platforms

Led $100M+ mission-critical programs for the US Department of Defense and Canadian DND, including enterprise architecture modernization and national security infrastructure delivery in SCIF environments.

• DND Enterprise Architecture — national security infrastructure modernization across DoD and DND standards
• DoD PEO STRI Senior Consultant (2008–2009) — strategic advisory on training and simulation systems architecture
• MKS Technologies / US Navy (2011) — Chief Designer for experimental stealth CPU with hardware-level OTP encryption
• FreeRTOS (deep development); Cortex-M core; TI DSP; UART/SPI/I2C peripheral drivers for UAV signal processing (Allied Forces/NATO)
• Cross-agency coordination: DoD, DND, NATO partners; former Secret clearances — Canada, US, NATO (eligible for re-sponsorship)

Founded software engineering R&D lab and consultancy serving federal government and enterprise clients across Canada and the US. All work as prime contractor.

• Allen & Unwin (Australia, 2002–2003): solved Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix data leakage problem IBM couldn't fix in 2.5 years — resolved remotely in 5 days; travelled on-site for zero-downtime hardening
• NRC: designed cross-platform Oracle database synchronization across Mainframe, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows NT in real time
• MaxTran — proprietary DSL for real-time GPS data correction deployed for continental-scale geospatial infrastructure (Geodetics Survey)
• gScarlet — world's first web UI for IPv4/IPv6 Linux firewall (C + PHP5); sold to Morgen Taler Clinic, NRCan, NRC, CDND
• SnapLinux — custom Linux distribution for embedded field systems; sold commercially to NRCan and Geodetics Survey Division

• Founded cybersecurity startup with Safdar Masud; developed Exorcist — first kernel-level Unix/Linux daemon monitoring and self-correction system
• Pioneer in proactive Unix/Linux security — detecting and correcting daemon anomalies before they became exploits

• Built real-time GPS correction systems for Canadian geospatial infrastructure
• Delivered mission-critical systems with 99.9%+ uptime requirements across federal science agencies