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Head of IT, nearly 15 years of hands-on technical experience.
Trading platforms, network and security, FinTech tooling.
Strong technical depth across the full stack.

Bridge between business and IT. Strategy meets terminal: designing trading platforms, hardening perimeters, folding AI into day-to-day ops.

• Electronic matching platform: dark pool, ZAR IRS, FastAPI + React + MSAL + WebSocket
• Price contribution platform: Bloomberg/LSEG -> Excel-DNA -> FastAPI -> QuestDB -> Kafka
• Hyper-V to Proxmox cluster migration: 3 nodes, NetApp NFS, hardening CIS
• Anti-ransomware program: 4-phase NIST-aligned roadmap, Zero Trust segmentation
• FreePBX 17 replacing legacy CUCM: Asterisk 22, SIP trunk migration
• AI-augmented IT ops: Claude Code for infra audits, runbooks, algorithmic trading

Trading & FinTech Bloomberg, LSEG RTDS / RCC, QuantLib, FIX 4.x / 5.0, Excel-DNA (C#), Entra ID / MSAL

Backend & data Python (FastAPI), TypeScript / React (Vite), QuestDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Kafka, WebSocket

Infrastructure Proxmox VE (cluster + PBS), LXC, NetApp ONTAP (iSCSI + NFS + CIFS), Hyper-V, Veeam, Azure

Network & security Cisco (Nexus 9500, Catalyst 9300 / 9200), Palo Alto NGFW (PA-460 HA, PA-440, Panorama), IPsec IKEv2 at scale (23 tunnels / 6 sites), Zero Trust segmentation, DRP

Observability & ops Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Wazuh SIEM, Ansible

Telephony FreePBX 17 / Asterisk 22, CUCM (legacy), IPC Systems (Unigy 5.5), Yealink (T87W, W70B DECT), SIP trunks

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

• claude-skills-fintech-ops: 24 Claude Code skills for FinTech ops (trading, infra, network, security, monitoring, telephony, frontend, data), extracted from a decade of production
• quantlib-irs-toolkit: IRS curve bootstrapping in Python with QuantLib (PLN, HUF, CZK, ZAR)
• excel-dna-trading-addin-template: production-grade Excel-DNA starter for trading floors: ribbon, MSAL, cell watcher, backend client
• 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)

• faridsaid.com: portfolio and technical blog
• StructCAD: structural engineering toolkit, Eurocode-compliant
• Qorentix: algorithmic FX trading bot on OANDA
• Self-hosted n8n: workflow automation lab

• Site: fawraw.github.io (this profile, on the web)
• Personal: faridsaid.com
• Location: Switzerland