Mohammad Heib
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Tuba Zangaria, North District, Israel
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Top SchoolMohammad Heib is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in Linux networking, RDMA, OVS/OVN, and kernel-level C development. He has driven core OVN backend features and stability fixes at Red Hat, contributing to the well-known open virtual network project including IPv6 VIP support and memory-management improvements. Prior roles at Mellanox and Nokia involved maintaining Linux network drivers and backporting critical fixes across major distributions, giving him deep practical knowledge of production networking stacks. Based in northern Israel and a Tel-Hai Computer Science graduate, he excels at bridging low-level systems work with upstream open-source collaboration. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs meticulous debugging skills with a wry sense of humor—“it works on my machine”—that reflects a focus on making fragile systems reliable in real deployments.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Tel-Hai University of Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee
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Github contributions (5)
ovn-org/ovn
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Open Virtual Network
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:32 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mohammad contributed to the Open Virtual Network (OVN) project by implementing and fixing critical backend functionalities. Their work includes updating documentation, correcting table numbers, and adding features such as IPv6 VIP support for virtual ports. The user also addressed memory management issues in utilities and improved the controller's ability to handle specific network packets. Their contributions suggest a focus on enhancing the stability and feature set of the OVN backend.
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mohammadheib/ovn
Aug 2022 - Aug 2024
Open Virtual Network
Contributions:30 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years
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