Farid Said, Head of IT

What I do

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.

Open source

Tools and playbooks I publish:

proxmox-host-hardening

Shell script + docs

CIS-aligned hardening playbook for Proxmox VE 8 hosts. Idempotent script, dry-run mode, automatic backups, walkthrough, accepted-findings documentation (root SSH between cluster nodes, rpcbind for NFS, ...).

Shell Proxmox CIS

triple-pendulum-sim2real

RL / MuJoCo / n8n

Sim-to-real reinforcement learning for all 56 equilibrium transitions of a triple inverted pendulum on a cart. TQC algorithm, MuJoCo physics, n8n orchestration. Side project.

Python RL MuJoCo

Stack

Infrastructure: Proxmox VE (cluster + PBS), LXC, NetApp ONTAP, Hyper-V, Veeam, Azure.
Network and security: Cisco (Nexus, Catalyst), Palo Alto NGFW and Panorama, IPsec IKEv2, Zero Trust segmentation, DRP.
Backend and data: Python (FastAPI), TypeScript / React (Vite), PostgreSQL, SQLite, Kafka, WebSocket.
Observability and ops: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Wazuh SIEM, Ansible, GitHub Actions.
Telephony: VoIP and SIP trunks, Asterisk / FreePBX, Cisco CUCM.

Certifications

CISM · PMP · CCNP · Palo Alto NGFW · ITIL 4 Strategic Leader