Muhammad Mahmoud
Vice President, Data Cloud - TMT Strategic Accounts
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMuhammad Mahmoud is a seasoned sales and technical leader with over a decade of experience building strategic enterprise accounts in the TMT space, now serving as Vice President, Data Cloud for Strategic Accounts at Salesforce in New York. He has a strong track record of driving multi-million dollar revenue growth through team leadership, account strategy, and long-term customer partnerships across global enterprise accounts. Early hands-on roles in network operations and consulting inform his ability to bridge technical and commercial conversations, particularly around cloud and networking solutions. In parallel he contributes to prominent open-source Kubernetes and OpenShift networking projects (MetalLB, OVN Kubernetes, OpenShift CNO), bringing practical DevOps and backend engineering experience to production-grade network and BGP features. That blend of enterprise sales acumen and low-level networking contributions makes him effective at navigating complex, technical procurement cycles and accelerating cloud adoption. He holds a BA from Rutgers and combines commercial instincts with an engineer’s attention to resilience and operational detail.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Montclair High SchoolB.A. Political Science and Economics, B.A. Political Science and Economics at Rutgers University
Arabic, English, German
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Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
continuous-integration10
sdn10
r10
testing10
dockers10
networking10
cicd10
automation10
go10
openshift10
f10
ipv610
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
A robust Kubernetes networking platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:131 reviews, 13 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Muhammad primarily contributed to the OVN Kubernetes networking platform by implementing features and addressing issues related to IP allocation and network management. They updated the IP allocator logic, fixed IPv6 overflow issues, and enhanced the handling of special cases for Open vSwitch (OVS) port operations. The user also made infrastructure changes, such as modifying the memory trimming process and introducing retry mechanisms for Kubernetes resources like nodes and EgressIPs, improving the system's resilience and stability.
k8skubernetesovncnicni-plugin
metallb/metallb
Jun 2021 - May 2022
A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:214 reviews, 15 commits, 23 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Muhammad primarily contributed to enhancing the MetalLB's BGP functionality, including IPv6 support, community advertisement configuration, and local preference settings. They implemented features, such as adding keepalivetime configuration and FRR logging using environment variables. The user also improved the test suite by adding wget retries and extended the existing tests to cover IPv6 and community advertisement use cases. Furthermore, they introduced modifications for dual-stack support and added the capability to generate core dumps for debugging, demonstrating their involvement across various aspects of MetalLB's operation.
bare-metalbalancerprotocolsarpospf
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