Faris Hijazi
Manager at EELLEESS TECHNOLOGY
Saudi Arabia
Summary
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Top SchoolFaris Hijazi is a seasoned manager and network/security specialist with over 20 years of hands-on experience and eight years in senior leadership, bridging wholesale trading of electronics with enterprise IT services across telecom, retail, banking, and government sectors. A CCIE-certified security expert with a Johns Hopkins M.S. in Telecommunication & Networking, he has led security design at major operators, managed national-scale network projects, and driven vendor and proposal management for top regional retailers. Faris combines technical depth—in data centers, cloud, firewalls, VPNs, and IP camera systems—with commercial acumen in product sourcing, budgeting, and go-to-market execution for premium retail channels. Known for coaching and knowledge transfer, he designs high- and low-level training and consistently turns complex security requirements into practical, deployable solutions. Unusually for a manager, he maintains a maker mindset from his Computer Engineering roots and contributes small productivity tools on GitHub to simplify everyday workflows.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityThe University of Maryland, College Park
Arabic, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
buzamahmooza/MomentumGame
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 5 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 9 months
buzamahmooza/Helpful-Web-Userscripts
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:148 commits, 73 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
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