Ahmed Elhassany
Tech Lead. Staff Software Engineer at Swisscom
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAhmed Elhassany is a tech lead and staff software engineer based in Zurich with 14 years of experience building high-performance networked systems and production-grade telemetry and anomaly detection platforms at Swisscom. He combines deep research roots—PhD-level work at ETH Zurich and research roles across US labs—with hands-on engineering delivered at scale, including a network verification prototype at Facebook. His expertise spans software-defined networking, network modeling, and RESTful API design, with a track record of turning formal specifications into automated router configurations and concurrency-checking tools for SDN controllers. At Swisscom he progressed from building a cross-service Knowledge Graph to leading the company’s network telemetry efforts, demonstrating an unusual blend of knowledge-graph and networking domain experience. Ahmed’s early projects range from national infrastructure systems to scalable topology services, revealing a practical bent for mission-critical, data-driven network tooling. He is pragmatic, research-informed, and particularly skilled at bridging academic rigor with operational production systems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonMasters, Computer and Information Science, Masters, Computer and Information Science at University of DelawareBachelor, Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Engineering at Islamic University of GazaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at ETH Zurich
Github Skills (110)
bgp10
yang10
networking10
xml10
json9
rabbitmq8
netflow8
tornado8
avro8
bmp8
sink8
dm8
modeling8
netconf8
theorem8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nsg-ethz/synet
May 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:69 commits, 4 comments in 7 months
nsg-ethz/synet-plus
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
New SyNET code base
Contributions:474 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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