Summary
Khalid Sami is a Senior Network Architect based in Houston with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale enterprise and data center networks. He has deep expertise across switching, routing, SD-WAN and SDN (Cisco ACI, Nexus, VXLAN, OTV, MPLS) and a track record of leading WAN modernizations, data center migrations and security platform migrations (ASA to Palo Alto, ISE). At Chevron Phillips and prior employers he drove MPLS and SD-WAN rollouts, automated repetitive tasks with Python, and architected spine-and-leaf data centers that improved resilience and cross-site failover. Khalid pairs operational rigor—capacity planning, NetFlow/SNMP monitoring and change management—with mentoring junior engineers and maintaining comprehensive network documentation. He also holds a Master’s in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, reflecting a strong focus on secure-by-design networking rather than just connectivity.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Alrafidain University College
Master's degree, Cybersecurity and information assurance, Master's degree, Cybersecurity and information assurance at Western Governors University
English, Arabic