# Okash Khawaja

> Staff Engineer at Google

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/okash

Currently I’m not looking for new opportunities.

Rust, HPC/ML networking, Linux kernel, virtualization, Intel and ARM architectures.

Linux Kernel Contributions: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=Okash+Khawaja

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Lead for HPC networking for ML systems. Mostly focused on Linux kernel networking+RDMA stack, smart NIC offload, host networking and virtualisation.

In past:

Lead for secure systems software, focused on privacy and system/architectural security. Android, 
Linux kernel, virtualisation, hypervisors (multiple), boot firmware, ARMv8-A, ARMv9, x86_64, memory management code, MMU programming, networking, interrupt controller programming, access control, assembly language

### Production Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | London, England, United Kingdom
- Worked on coreboot + LinuxBoot to do bring up and boot of Intel devices (programming BIOS, cache-as-RAM, using Intel FSP to init DRAM, debugging random hardware issues, e.g. voltage rails left floating, created a minimal Linux payload small enough to fit tiny BIOS flash memory)
- Worked on Linux kernel eBPF debug and trace support, fixed eBPF bug in upstream, upstreamed my changes to mainline Linux kernel)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Undo Ltd
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Senior Engineer Software @ TomTom
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom
ARM based embedded systems development, sports wearable devices, embedded system power management software, crypto, various drivers, i2c, spi, uart, bluetooth

### Software Developer @ Amazon Development Centre, London
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | London, United Kingdom
E-commerce data pipeline, server side Java and C++ based systems, scalable systems, AWS

### Software Developer @ Draycir Ltd
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 | Leicester, United Kingdom
Document management system and business intelligence applications.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

### Beaconhouse


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/okash

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Source: https://flows.cv/okash
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/okash/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12