Samer Abdel-Hafez
Director, EMEA Network And Partner Engagement Strategy
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSamer Abdel-Hafez is a seasoned network strategist and engineering leader with 12 years driving interconnection, network planning and partner engagement for Netflix’s Open Connect CDN across EMEA from Amsterdam. He combines hands-on protocol and design expertise with senior relationship management, having founded regional peering initiatives like ITNOG and MINAP to improve latency and reduce transit costs. His career spans backbone engineering, peering management and network architecture roles at operators including LeaseWeb, Hibernia and M247, giving him deep operational credibility. An active contributor to the popular ytti/oxidized project, he’s improved device support and security by adding new platform models and secret-removal features—showing he still writes code to solve real networking problems. Colleagues know him for translating complex interconnection challenges into pragmatic, low-cost solutions that scale across regions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Scientific, Scientific at Liceo Scientifico
English, Italian
Github Skills (9)
network-configuration10
backup10
ox10
oxid10
networking10
ruby9
network9
telnet8
ssh8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ytti/oxidized
Oct 2013 - Sep 2017
Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 8 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Samer primarily contributed to the configuration backup tool by adding support for new network device models (Arista EOS and Cisco IOS XR). They implemented secret removal functionality across various models, enhancing security. Additionally, the user made modifications to improve prompt detection and version updates within the tool, ensuring continued functionality and stability.
nmsoxidizedrancidbackup-toolnetwork
nopedial/oxidized-docker
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year
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