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Head of IT, nearly 15 years of hands-on technical experience.
Infrastructure, network and security, AI-augmented operations.
Strong technical depth across the full stack.
Bridge between business and IT. Strategy meets terminal: designing resilient infrastructure, hardening perimeters, folding AI into day-to-day ops.
- Infrastructure: virtualization, storage, backup and disaster recovery for regulated environments
- Network and security: Zero Trust segmentation, next-generation firewalls, site-to-site VPN, hardening
- AI-augmented IT operations: Claude Code for infrastructure audits, documentation and runbooks
- Homelab: Proxmox cluster, self-hosted CI/CD, monitoring and workflow automation
Infrastructure Proxmox VE (cluster + PBS), LXC, NetApp ONTAP, Hyper-V, Veeam, Azure
Network & security Cisco (Nexus, Catalyst), Palo Alto NGFW and Panorama, IPsec IKEv2, Zero Trust segmentation, DRP
Backend & data Python (FastAPI), TypeScript / React (Vite), PostgreSQL, SQLite, Kafka, WebSocket
Observability & ops Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Wazuh SIEM, Ansible, GitHub Actions
Telephony VoIP and SIP trunks, Asterisk / FreePBX, Cisco CUCM
CISM | PMP | CCNP | Palo Alto NGFW | ITIL 4 Strategic Leader
- proxmox-host-hardening: CIS-aligned hardening playbook for Proxmox VE 8 hosts
- triple-pendulum-sim2real: sim-to-real RL for the 56 equilibrium transitions of a triple inverted pendulum on a cart (MuJoCo, TQC, n8n orchestration)
- Site: faridsaid.com: portfolio and technical blog
- Landing: fawraw.github.io
- LinkedIn: Farid Saïd
- Location: Switzerland


