Samir Hussain
Director Of Services at Xelerance Corporation
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSamir Hussain is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on software and product experience, now serving as Director of Services at Xelerance in Ottawa. He blends deep C and backend expertise—contributing to open-source projects like Openswan and xl2tpd—with strong operational and product management instincts, having led feature development, release management and RFP responses. Known for building self-sustaining, cross-functional teams, he has a track record of hiring, coaching team leads and guiding technical adoption across organizations. Practical and detail-oriented, Samir has made low-level security improvements (IKEv2 child rekey) while also tackling release/versioning hygiene, a combination that keeps both code quality and delivery cadence high.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A.Sc. Computer Engineering, B.A.Sc. Computer Engineering at University of Ottawa
French, English
Github Skills (11)
ipsec10
keyv10
l2tp10
c-programming10
network-programming10
security10
networking9
makefile9
configuration-management9
version-control8
openwrt7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xelerance/xl2tpd
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
Official Xelerance fork of L2TPd
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 4 reviews, 121 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Samir primarily contributed to the `xl2tpd` project by updating and maintaining its core functionality. Their commits focused on version updates, demonstrating familiarity with release management. The user also made code changes to improve efficiency and fix compiler warnings, indicating a focus on code quality and optimization, and incorporated configurations.
l2tpdtunnelingtuntapproxy-protocolsctp
xelerance/Openswan
Jul 2016 - Mar 2021
Openswan
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 96 commits, 151 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Samir primarily focused on updating the version information within the `Openswan` repository. Their contributions involved modifying the `Makefile.ver` file to reflect new version releases, including development and release candidate versions. These updates ensure the project's versioning is accurate and reflects the ongoing development and release cycles of the Openswan project. Furthermore, the user integrated an IKEv2 child rekey facility, enhancing security and key management.
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