Haitham Afifi
Network Engineer at BRITA Group
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHaitham Afifi is a Network Engineer with 11 years of experience blending advanced wireless research and practical network operations, currently consulting in IT services and working at BRITA Group. He holds a PhD in Wireless Networks from Hasso Plattner Institute and has deep expertise in microservices, wireless protocols, channel modeling, and IoT deployment challenges. Haitham has applied AI/ML techniques to optimize network performance and drive migrations and cloud advisory work at Accenture. His background spans academia and industry—from Fraunhofer and university research to hands-on engineering at Orange Business Services—giving him a unique ability to translate cutting-edge research into production-ready solutions. Based in Frankfurt, he is particularly adept at solving complex wireless performance issues and integrating generative AI into networking workflows. An interesting detail: his doctoral and early research on channel modeling informs a practical perspective on real-world city-scale wireless optimization that many operational engineers overlook.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information Engineering and Technology, Master’s Degree Information Engineering and Technology at The German University in CairoTechnischen Universität DarmstadtDoctor's Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Doctor's Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Hasso Plattner Institute
English, German, Arabic, French
Github Skills (10)
wireless9
embedding8
network-visualization8
virtual-network8
gpt4
large-language-models4
opt4
gradio2
gpt4all2
llama2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CN-UPB/MARVELO
Nov 2018 - Sep 2022
Wireless Virtual Network Embedding
Contributions:36 commits, 4 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 years 10 months
virtual-network-embeddingnetwork-embeddingwirelessnetwork-visualizationvirtual-network
CN-UPB/WASN
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 months
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