About me
Thirty years in Internet infrastructure, nineteen of them as CTO, then large-scale management roles at Meta and HAProxy. Now Director of Data Engineering at IPinfo, I lead data strategy, infrastructure and AI transformation, while staying hands-on, from code to system architecture.
- Director of Data Engineering - IPinfo 2026present
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Director, ADN Edge - HAProxy
20242 years
- Production Engineering Manager - Meta, London 20195 years
- CTO - SdV Plurimedia 200019 years
- System and Network Administrator - SdV Plurimedia 19955 years
Also:
- Author of several open source projects.
- Former adjunct lecturer in Unix at the University of Strasbourg.
- Clarinet player in a klezmer band.
My skills
From the terminal to the boardroom
Vision and Strategy
- Driving AI transformation
- Delivering high-stakes projects
- Long-term roadmap and budget ownership
- Aligning technology with business goals
People
- International team management
- Hiring and talent retention
- Mentoring and team upskilling
- Crisis and major incident leadership
Technology
- Architecture: large-scale distributed systems
- Networking: TCP/IP, routing, BGP, MPLS
- Edge & CDN: load balancing, caching, TLS
- Systems: Unix, observability, high availability
- Data: high-throughput ingestion pipelines
- Coding: C, Go, PHP, Python, Bash
- Security: hardening, DDoS mitigation, zero-trust
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- AI: agents & automation, LLM APIs, PyTorch
- Shaders: GLSL, WebGL
In their words
Some feedback I received on LinkedIn
Salim stands out as one of the best managers I ever worked with, exhibiting a rare blend of deep technical understanding with a genuine commitment to nurturing his team.
Razvan AlecsandrescuProduction Engineer · Meta
Salim owns an extraordinary profile as CTO of SdV. His knowledge of the datacenter market, Tier-1 and IP among others is exceptional.
Miguel VilladaSr Consulting Engineer · Arbor Networks
Projects
Tools built over the years, because what I needed didn't exist.
Hex Packet Decoder
A free, AI-powered packet decoder trusted by engineers at Broadcom, Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, NASA, and universities worldwide. Started as a personal tool and became a community reference.
Geo Traceroute
Accurate geolocation of traceroute hops on the Internet is an open problem. This is an approach using a network of 300+ nodes and deep learning with PyTorch.
Postfix GLD
A lightweight standalone greylisting daemon written in C for postfix, available on Ubuntu, Debian and many other distributions.
Docker HCD
Docker was missing some high availability features I needed, HCD is a daemon that restarts unhealthy containers, downloaded more than 10,000 times.
BGPMap
Standard looking glasses were missing fanciness, I opted for a real time graphical BGP paths visualisation.
Visualising RIPE ATLAS Anchor Measurements
An article on how to leverage RIPE ATLAS nodes to enhance your network observability, published by RIPE Labs.
GPU GLSL Shaders
I always wanted to code GPU GLSL shaders as the programming logic is quite unique and challenging.
Three.js old school demos
As a former Amiga scene democoder, I recoded some old school demos using WebGL and Three.js.
L2WH Lineage II Network Sniffer
(2004-2009)
Reverse-engineered Lineage II's encrypted network protocol with zero documentation from NCSoft. Real-time packet capture, decryption and parsing to extract mob data, drop rates, item stats and XP metrics. Used by thousands of players worldwide, tolerated by NCSoft, and commercially acquired at end of life.
ClassAction for AmigaOS
(1994-1998)
ClassAction is a file manager for AmigaOS, written between 1994 and 1998, it was quite popular by that time.