Babak Farrokhi
Director Of Operations
Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarBabak Farrokhi is a seasoned technology leader and Director of Operations with nearly two decades of experience building resilient, privacy-focused global infrastructure and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He combines deep UNIX and networking expertise (DNS, BGP, eBPF) with hands-on systems programming in C, Go, and Python to rearchitect legacy platforms and drive operational excellence at scale. As a creator of the BisPhone Messaging Network, author of "Network Administration with FreeBSD 7," and maintainer of the widely used dnsdiag toolset, he brings a proven track record in open-source tooling and DNS diagnostics. At Quad9 he led operations across 110+ countries, improving security, observability, and deployment velocity, and previously scaled SRE and infrastructure organizations at Booking.com and team.blue. Based in the Netherlands, he pairs pragmatic engineering (his GitHub bio calls him an “Internet Plumber”) with strategic leadership, and maintains long-standing contributions to the FreeBSD ports collection.
19 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Persian, English
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Github Skills (18)
python10
command-line-interface10
network-programming10
dns10
mtls8
tcp8
dnssec8
http8
libtls8
tls138
tls128
macos6
clang6
keychain6
dnspython6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
farrokhi/dnsdiag
Feb 2016 - May 2021
DNS Measurement, Troubleshooting and Security Auditing Toolset
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 3 reviews, 258 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Babak primarily contributed to the development of the `dnsdiag` tool, focusing on enhancements to the command-line interface and core functionality of the `dnsping` utility. They implemented features such as TCP and DNS over TLS/HTTPS transport protocols, along with the integration of DNSSEC desired flag. The user also improved error handling, added support for custom source IP/port, and modified the output format. Furthermore, they have also refactored the code for better readability and added support for sub-second intervals.
troubleshootingdnssecuritymeasurementcoredns
farrokhi/ripe-atlas-scripts
Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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