Sami Mokaddem
Lead Software Engineer at CIRCL (Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg)
Belgium
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Sami Mokaddem is a Lead Software Engineer based in Belgium with 11 years of experience building robust back-end systems, particularly in threat intelligence and malware analysis platforms. He drives development for the MISP project and CIRCL, contributing significant back-end features, bug fixes, and modules that expand ingestion, enrichment and integration capabilities for an influential open-source threat-sharing platform. His hands-on work includes building a Redis-backed feed generator, MISP modules for Mattermost and Jinja rendering, and enhancements to the core MISP application—demonstrating a knack for plumbing complex data flows into operational workflows. Trained as an engineer at Louvain, he blends applied research-level rigor with practical production fixes and tooling, often improving developer experience through install scripts and lightweight web interfaces. Colleagues rely on him for quietly solving messy integration problems that make large-scale threat data usable and automatable.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mathématiques et informatique, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mathématiques et informatique at Université catholique de LouvainMaster en ingénierie, Master en ingénierie at École polytechnique de Louvain - Louvain School of engineering
Github Skills (31)
back-end-development10
redis10
jinja210
python10
api-client10
msp10
php10
api10
scripting9
json9
apim9
apidoc9
url-parsing9
threat-intelligence9
data-processing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CIRCL/AIL-framework
Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
AIL framework - Analysis Information Leak framework. Project moved to https://github.com/ail-project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 472 commits, 81 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sami's commits primarily focused on configuring and modifying the AIL framework's internal components. This involved changes to the launch scripts and Python scripts (e.g., `LAUNCH.sh`, `Url.py`, `Duplicate.py`, `DomClassifier.py`, and `Categ.py`), indicating work on back-end logic and data processing. The user also contributed to the implementation of the WebTrending web interface, creating related templates.
leakprivacysecurityanalysisdata-mining
MISP/MISP
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
MISP (core software) - Open Source Threat Intelligence and Sharing Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 3188 commits, 240 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sami primarily focused on bug fixes and feature enhancements within the MISP platform's back-end. Their contributions involved modifications to the application controller, including the bump of query version, merging branches and various adjustments to the code, model and model parameters. They also implemented improvements to various parts of the application, such as the dashboard settings, and added support for new features.
bugbountythreat-analysisctifraud-preventionsharing
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