Tomasz Bujlow

Currently, I am working on the development of Network Intelligence (NI) software solutions, which involve traffic classification, analysis, and complete decoding of detected protocols and applications. These solutions are characterized by high performance for core network links with speeds up to 100 Gbit/s and faster. They use various technologies (e.g., Deep Packet Inspection, behavioral, heuristic, and statistical analysis) to reliably detect network protocols, applications, and services, and extract metadata, in real time. I am a daily user of G Suite, Atlassian Software (JIRA, Confluence) and GIT. From the time of taking this position, I am working with Agile development methodologies including SCRUM. During that time, I identified many aspects of SCRUM that are critical from the quality and development productivity points of view. I also served as a customer support developer channel, which made me able to better understand how the customers see and use our software and what are their priorities for the product development and maintenance. As sharing the technical knowledge is my passion, I organized multiple training workshops related to computer networks and network traffic analysis.

I obtained my PhD in Classification and Analysis of Computer Network Traffic from Aalborg University in Denmark on June 6, 2014. My PhD project was co-financed and co-supervised by Bredbånd Nord A/S, a regional electricity and Internet provider. Due to this industrial collaboration, I learned how to collect and understand customer requirements, present high-level concepts and results to the company management, and structure the work in order to reach both the scientific and industrial goals on time.

I was the founder and developer of nDPIng - the next generation open-source computer network traffic classification tool. I was also the principal investigator in the Volunteer-Based System for Research on the Internet project, which was focused on designing and developing a system, which is able to provide detail data about applications used in the Internet.

I used to work independently and cover the entire development process, from architecture, design, implementation and customer feedback up to bug fixing. Apart from the nDPIng and Volunteer-Based System for Research on the Internet projects, I fully authored 2 industrial projects. Web-Based Client for InDesign Server uses web-based techniques and tools in collaboration with a headless version of InDesign Server, which is controlled by scripts produced by the designed web interface, to render InDesign documents in the real-time. The Efficient Invoicing Solution with Offline Synchronization Capabilities project was concentrated on creating an invoicing system for a mining company, which is characterized by a significant fraction of features differing from other systems already existing in the market. The designed and implemented system was in use in around 30 departments of OPA-LABOR during 4 years, successfully satisfying all the requirements set in this project.

I am quick in learning new technologies (e.g., programming languages, development platforms and frameworks) and using the new knowledge and skills in practice, which allows me to easily switch between different IT-related fields. I put the ability to solve problems with the help of the Internet, books, or other people above the encyclopedic knowledge (e.g., knowing by heart the syntax of a particular programming language or an already existing and documented algorithm).

During my PhD, I was a visiting researcher at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain, where I was working together with the Broadband Communications Research Group on the comparison of Deep Packet Inspection Tools for traffic classification. I was also visiting ntop in Pisa, Italy (collaboration on nDPI) and TELECOM Sudparis in Evry, France (collaboration on traffic classification in 802.11). I am an author of 4 journal articles, 8 conference papers, and 3 technical reports on the topics related to traffic monitoring and analysis. Since 2011, I gave 11 presentations in seminars and guest lectures at Aalborg University in Denmark, TELECOM Sudparis in France, University of Pisa in Italy, Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy, RWTH University in Germany, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain, IDA House of Engineers in Denmark, and Albena Resort in Bulgaria. I am a reviewer of 15 articles submitted to different journals and conferences.

During my postdoctoral research, I investigated techniques used for tracking users' activity online.

I am also a holder of 2 language certificates: TOEFL iBT (98/120) and Prøve i Dansk 3 (9/12).