About me
A tech leader with three decades of experience.
I have led international teams at Meta and HAProxy, driven large-scale projects, and maintained deep technical expertise in Unix, networking, and distributed architectures.
- Running Conitivia.io, an IT consulting firm serving CIOs. 2026ongoing
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Director of ADN Edge service - HAProxy.
20242 yr
- Production Engineering Manager - Meta London. 20195 yr
- CTO of SdV Plurimedia, a French hosting company. 200019 yr
- System and Network Administrator - SdV Plurimedia. 19955 yr
On top of these positions, on my free time:
- Author of several open source projects.
- Adjunct lecturer at Strasbourg University.
- Clarinet player in a klezmer band.
My skills
Deep technical and leadership expertise:
- Vision and Strategy
- Leadership and Strategy
- Large scale projects management
- People
- International teams management
- Talent development and hiring
- Technology
- Large scale distributed architectures
- Networking: TCP/IP, routing, BGP, MPLS
- DevOps: Unix, system design
- Coding: C, PHP, Python, Bash
- Security: FW, IPS, DDOS, compliance
- Containers: Docker and Kubernetes
- AI: LLM APIs, Pytorch, Chatbots
To go further about me:
"I had the privilege of working under Salim's management for two years, and I want to extend my sincere appreciation for the outstanding support he consistently offered, cultivating a positive work environment. Salim's extensive technical expertise across various fields, coupled with his adept communication skills, greatly contributed to the team's understanding and alignment with his vision. [...]"
Breno Leitao @ Meta
"[...] 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. His approach to technical projects, characterized by clarity and precision, helped us tackle complex challenges with confidence [...]"
Razvan Alecsandrescu @ Meta
"Salim owns an extraordinary profile as CTO of SDV. His knowledge of the datacenter market, Tier-1 and IP among others is exceptional. Salim has created the most reliable and technically advanced environment to offer superior services to his customers. [...]"
Miguel Villada @ Arbor Networks
"Salim is a bright guy. Not the kind of average bright guy, he is a real bright, clever, smart engineer, with a very high focus on efficiency. He has turned SdV in a real Internet powerhouse."
Jean-Georges Perrin @ RBS
Projects
A selection of projects built over the years — from networking tools to AI experiments.
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 200+ global 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.
ClassAction for AmigaOS
(1994-1998)
ClassAction is a file manager for AmigaOS, written between 1994 and 1998, it was quite popular by that time.