Shah Rahman
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Director of Engineering
Shah leads the connectivity infrastructure software team at the Connectivity group of Meta — a group missioned to bring more people online to a faster Internet. His team is developing an open-source network core stack, Magma, an unlicensed mmWave stack, Terragraph, and several pioneering industry-wide initiatives to help network operators and service providers build open, cheaper and better cellular and wireless networks (O-RAN, Evenstar, TIP OpenCore, Private 5G, …)
Shah brought almost two decades of org leadership and product building experience to Meta. Most of that are from equipment vendors like Cisco, Ericsson and a couple of startups; and include several world and industry firsts, incl., 4G / LTE and WiMAX launches. The mission of connecting the world, bringing the unconnected people online and bridging the digital divide are truly exciting to him, where he can apply his vision for novel network architectures, models, and frameworks that leverage disaggregation, cloudification, convergence and automation towards simpler, but powerful network infrastructure for the always connected, always on, for the post pandemic era. His team work important components of Meta’s vision of building metaverse over the next decade.