Aymen Frikha
Principal Field Software Engineer at Canonical
United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAymen Frikha is a Principal Field Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in cloud networking, OpenStack Neutron, SDN, and Python, currently driving solutions and customer success at Canonical in the United Arab Emirates. He blends academic research—where he built adaptive Neutron plugins and formalized models for multi-tenant datacenters—with extensive field work deploying and integrating OpenStack for production customers, including complex Cinder and Neutron architectures. Comfortable across consultancy, implementation, and pre-sales engineering, he has deep practical knowledge of high-availability network designs (DVR, VRRP), SDN controller integrations, and automation tooling like Juju, MAAS, Puppet and CloudFormation. Holding advanced degrees in computer science and an MBA, he pairs technical depth with business acumen to translate infrastructure constraints into deployable cloud architectures. An underrated strength is his repeated role as a bridge between research prototypes and production-ready deployments, turning academic ideas into resilient customer solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, IT, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, IT at HEC MontréalMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Université du Québec à MontréalMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Université du Québec à Montréal / UQAMEngineer's degree, Réseaux Informatiques et Télécommunication, Engineer's degree, Réseaux Informatiques et Télécommunication at INSATEngineer, Computer networks and telecommunications, Engineer, Computer networks and telecommunications at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie
French, English, Arabic
Github Skills (52)
bundle9
launchpad9
charmed-kubernetes9
operator9
juju8
kubeflow8
nvidia8
charm8
kubernetes7
twisted7
cuda6
openstack-neutron6
django6
maas6
gpu5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-charmers/charm-infoblox
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Infoblox integration for OpenStack Neutron and Nova
Contributions:8 PRs, 4 pushes, 10 comments in 4 months
novaopenstack-neutroninfobloxneutronopenstack
aym-frikha/demos
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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