Naji Obeid
Software Engineer at MaxMind
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNaji Obeid is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently based in the Greater Montreal area and working at MaxMind. His background spans startups and established companies including Teleport—where he contributed observability and logging improvements to the popular open-source Teleport project—and roles at WorkJam, Hopper, and Groupdesk. He holds advanced degrees including a PhD in Logic applied to Systems Biology, bringing a researcher's rigor to practical engineering problems. Known for improving monitoring, JSON logging, and metrics integration, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on coding to make complex infrastructure more observable and secure.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (M1), Computer Science, Master's degree (M1), Computer Science at Lebanese University - Faculty of SciencesPhD, Logic applied to Systems Biology, PhD, Logic applied to Systems Biology at Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (9)
logging10
go10
prometheus10
security9
golang8
auditing7
audit7
rbac6
certificate6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
May 2021 - Nov 2022
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:85 reviews, 42 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Naji implemented lazy initialization for Prometheus collectors, integrating metrics introduced in a previous pull request. Their work focused on the `lib/srv/authhandlers.go` file, which involved adding and configuring metrics related to failed login attempts and certificate mismatches. They also updated the log formatting configuration, enabling JSON logging and incorporating extra fields. These changes indicate a focus on improving monitoring, logging, and overall system observability.
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NajiObeid/tshtray
May 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:54 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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