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Baylor Cloudhubs Lab
Graduate Research Assistant
Baylor Cloudhubs Lab
Jan 2021 – Aug 2022 Waco, Texas, USA
  • Conducted research in software engineering, focusing on microservice architecture, technical debt, and code analysis.
  • Published multiple papers in respected academic journals, covering topics such as microservice analysis, architecture evolution, code smells, technical debt, visualization techniques, and more.
  • Led or contributed significantly to several systematic mapping studies, including studies on microservice analysis, anti-patterns, and architecture evolution.
  • Utilized microservice telemetry data for dynamic system analysis, identifying architectural degradation and code smells.
  • Technology Used: Java, Spring Boot, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, etc.
 
 
 
 
 
Red Hat Research
Intern
Red Hat Research
May 2021 – Jul 2021 Waco, Texas, USA
  • Led a team to analyze technical debt from architectural degradation and code smells.
  • Analyzed issue tickets and version control data to identify and quantify code debt.
  • Applied static analysis and process mining to detect architectural degradation in microservice systems.
  • Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, Git, Static Analysis.

Publications

Tomas Cerny, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Abdullah Al Maruf, Andrea Janes, Davide Taibi (2023). Catalog and detection techniques of microservice anti-patterns and bad smells: A tertiary study. Journal of Systems and Software.

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Garrett Parker, Samuel Kim, Abdullah Al Maruf, Tomas Cerny, Karel Frajtak, Pavel Tisnovsky, Davide Taibi (2023). Visualizing Anti-Patterns in Microservices at Runtime: A Systematic Mapping Study. IEEE Access.

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Mia E. Gortney, Patrick E. Harris, Tomas Cerny, Abdullah Al Maruf, Miroslav Bures, Davide Taibi, Pavel Tisnovsky (2022). Visualizing Microservice Architecture in the Dynamic Perspective: A Systematic Mapping Study. IEEE Access.

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Abdullah Al Maruf, Alexander Bakhtin, Tomas Cerny, Davide Taibi (2022). Using Microservice Telemetry Data for System Dynamic Analysis. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE).

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Tomas Cerny, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Vincent Bushong, Abdullah Al Maruf, Davide Taibi (2022). Microvision: Static analysis-based approach to visualizing microservices in augmented reality. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE).

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Tomas Cerny, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Vincent Bushong, Abdullah Al Maruf, Davide Taibi (2022). Microservice Architecture Reconstruction and Visualization Techniques: A Review. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE).

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Alexander Bakhtin, Abdullah Al Maruf, Tomas Cerny, Davide Taibi (2022). Survey on Tools and Techniques Detecting Microservice API Patterns. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC).

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Md Rofiqul Islam, Abdullah Al Maruf, Tomas Cerny (2022). Code Smell Prioritization with Business Process Mining and Static Code Analysis: A Case Study. Electronics.

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Dipta Das, Abdullah Al Maruf, Rofiqul Islam, Noah Lambaria, Samuel Kim, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Tomas Cerny, Karel Frajtak, Miroslav Bures, Pavel Tisnovsky (2022). Technical Debt Resulting from Architectural Degradation and Code Smells: A Systematic Mapping Study. SIGAPP Appl. Comput. Rev..

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Abdullah Al Maruf, Noah Lambaria, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Tomas Cerny (2021). Using Version Control and Issue Tickets to detect Code Debt and Economical Cost. 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE).

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Vincent Bushong, Dipta Das, Abdullah Al Maruf, Tomas Cerny (2021). Using Static Analysis to Address Microservice Architecture Reconstruction. 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE).

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Vincent Bushong, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Abdullah A. Maruf, Dipta Das, Austin Lehman, Eric Jaroszewski, Michael Coffey, Tomas Cerny, Karel Frajtak, Pavel Tisnovsky, Miroslav Bures (2021). On Microservice Analysis and Architecture Evolution: A Systematic Mapping Study. Applied Sciences.

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Research Areas

Microservice Architecture Technical Debt Software Evolution Code Smells & Anti-patterns Static & Dynamic Analysis Architecture Reconstruction