James

EngageBDR.

Bilaal was my direct report at Engage:BDR where he worked as a Junior Systems Administrator Intern for the summer of 2015.  He came on board very eager to learn anything I could give him and quickly grasped many high level technologies with ease such as Virtualization, Networking, and PowerShell. I actually found it difficult to keep Bilaal occupied since he was completing anything I assigned him faster than I expected him to.

Professor Andreas Koop

Professor of Medical Informatics.

Together with Prof. Ashiq Anjum, I gave the topic for Bilaal’s bachelor’s thesis, which was about prototyping a mobile device possessing the ability to combine the data connectivity of several mobile phone providers into one stable data offering. This construct has already been realised on trains, for example, to support the train’s WiFi offering, but it has not yet been developed for personal mobile usage. The Raspberry Pi was selected as the platform for this prototype.

Bilaal mastered several challenges along his research journey. He was very apt in deciding which available tools and services to use to achieve his goals in a timeframe of only a few months. He had to select suitable approaches, which he then tested and abandoned several times before he was able to determine the optimal solution.

Bilaal truly stood out among his peers, as others took on this bachelor’s thesis challenge before and failed. I have no doubt that Bilaal will successfully complete his degree, and further, I fully expect him to excel and stand at the top of his class.

Dr Mohammed Ziya Komsul

Senior Embedded Software and Robotic Engineer

He is ok. I don’t really know him. He looks nice.