# Eyad A. > What will be common in 20 years? SWE @ Palo Alto Networks | Prev Rubrik, Microsoft, Google x2 Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/eyad My 5th grade P.E teacher always ended class with, "Make sure you leave this place better than you found it." That's what I want to do. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2026 – Present | Santa Clara County, CA Next-Generation Firewall: Layer 7 Continuous Threat Detection ### Software Engineer @ Rubrik Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, CA Hypervisor Team GenAI Seminar Presenter ### Software Engineer Intern @ Rubrik Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States Unified User Experience Team ### Computer Programming Teaching Assistant @ Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Courses TA'd: Intro to Programming (5 quarters), Distributed Systems (2 quarters), Data Structures & Algorithms (1 quarter) - Teach weekly 1-hour section classes of 20-30 students about introductory programming concepts - Provide individual feedback on weekly homework and other exams submitted by students - Meet with other TAs and staff in weekly 2-hour meetings to improve the classroom experience through microteaches, feedback, and group thinking ### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Redmond, Washington, United States Office Exchange ### Software Engineer Intern @ Google Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote - Create a set of notifications and necessary back end infrastructure for the upcoming Google Fast Pair Service using C++ - Develop a strong background in writing test code, iterative design, and contributing to an open source codebase ### Software Engineer Intern @ Nordstrom Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote - Built a ValidatingAdmissionsWebhook to prevent invalid pod distribution budgets (PDBs) to be added to Nordstrom's kubernetes cluster using Golang, Docker, Gitlab, and Kubernetes - Created unit tests for the Golang server supporting the webhook to improve debugging ### Young Executives of Color (YEOC) Mentor @ University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 - Create a community within a group of 10 high school students of color (mentees) through monthly Saturday all-day sessions about a variety of business fundamentals (marketing, finance, etc.) - Collaborate in creating a 35 minute presentation on Information Systems with another mentor to be presented for over 180 mentees ### Engineering Peer Educator @ University of Washington College of Engineering Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Teach a weekly 1-hour class of 24 incoming engineering students during Fall 2020 about the different disciplines of engineering, opportunities within the college, and helping them transition to university life - Collaborated with college administration weekly for 1.5 hours to create 11 lesson plans and developed strategies for engagement such as workshops and 1:1s ### Software Engineer (STEP) Intern @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Virtual Internship - Built web development skills through starter projects focused on front-end, back-end, libraries and testing. - Collaborated with 2 podmates to create a full-stack web application using HTML/CSS/Javascript, jQuery, AJAX, and various APIs such as Youtube Data, Google Maps, and Google Suggest. ### Network Developer (Avionics) @ Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion (SARP) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Within a team of 5, create an API for communication between all the computers of the rocket, and for ground control communication with the rocket. - Personally responsible for creating a program that will interpret in-flight rocket data and readout important data at ground control using a Text-to-Speech library. ### Product Designer @ HuskyADAPT Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington, United States Worked with a team of 5 in a year long project to provide a solution to our special-needs client. Client had a physical condition that caused knee adduction when recumbent biking. Our goal was to mitigate this adduction. - Regularly met with client to update our status in the project and test ideas - Meet with client's physical therapist and other mentors to learn more about client's condition - Worked with team and mentor to brainstormed around 13 different root causes for adduction, then found ways to test these root causes - After 2 prototypes, provided a solution to client. Awarded Best Product Prototype at the HuskyADAPT end of the year showcase ### Market Vendor @ Hayton Farms Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Conway, Washington Responsible for 100-400 transaction (up to $4000 in sales) every shift working about 3 shifts a week Worked with a team of co-workers to provide quality customer service at farmers markets in Greater Seattle ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering University of Washington ### High School Diploma Mount Vernon High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eyadalsilimy --- Source: https://flows.cv/eyad JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/eyad/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13