Dr. Alexander Zimmermann

- Research into new networking technologies, architectures, protocols and systems such as software-defined (cloud) data center and low-latency networking - Prototyping and analytic experimentation of cutting-edge data center & networking technologies - Generation of intellectual property, academic publications, and participation in standards efforts

- Solutions architect for high- and low level design of large enterprise networks - Responsible for the design, build and test of the IP services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, RADIUS) and IP Address Management (IPAM) system for one of the biggest insurance company in the world - Assessments of network infrastructures, technologies, service portfolio and organization - Subject-matter expert (SME) in the area of TCP and IP services

- Academic research into TCP such as making TCP more robust against packet reordering - Implementation within Linux’ TCP stack - Design and implementation of a new performance measurement tool (www.flowgrind.net) - Publication of scientific papers in leading conferences and participation in standards efforts (IETF)

Communication and distributed systems; Business administration