Sassy Natan

Background

About Sassy Natan

System Network Architect, Linux/Windows expert, consultant and mentor with more than 25 years of experience in the Hi-Tech industry. Strong background in system and network architecture, integration and product management. Expert in building large integrated data centers for SW/HW companies and ISPs. DevOps, MLOPS, SRE Mentor for developing and maintaining large CI infrastructure. Has a high knowledge with visualization and cloud computing technologies (Kubernetes, KubeVirt, Docker, Xen, KVM, VMWare). CDNs (ex Cloudflare), Configuration Management/Orchestration tools (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible), Network Management and High Availability solutions (various implementations of LVS, DRBD, HAProxy, Pacemaker, KeepAlived, Trafic etc.). Has extensive hands-on experience in design, integration, implementation of enterprise\cloud opensource tools like AD, VMWare, NetApp, Weka, G-Suite, AAD, Office365, Amazon EC2, GCE, Azure, OpenStack, Kubernetes, eBPF, Calico, Cilium, cuDNN, Kubeflow, Helm, Gerrit, Git/GitLab, SVN, Jenkins, Travis, Redis, ELK, GreyLog, Graphite, Fluent, Sensu, Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Consul, Etcd, Vault, Nomad, Kafka, SparkSQL, Apache2, NGINX, OpenSSL, OpenLDAP, freeRadius, Samba, Asterisk, FreePBX, Janus, LusterFS, CephFS, ZFS, qMail, Postfix, Sendmail, KRB5, PowerDNS, Bind9, MySQL, Postgres (+Patroni), MongoDB, Casandra, JFrog, JBOSS, Java, Pyhton, NodeJS, C/C++, CMake, Ant, Maven, FortiGate, CheckPoint, Condor-HPC, Hadoop & many others. In-depth knowledge of Linux/Windows/Unix based OS internals (kernel architecture, programming, file-systems internals, user-mode applications development, TCP/IP networking, system administration). Has strong ability to come up with a creative, yet easy to implement and efficient solution in very short time. Specialties: System Architecture / Development and Integration. Product Management, Professional Services, Customer Facing. Experience with building high-end WebRTC implementation (BBR, QUIC) for live video streaming with GPU HW acceleration (VAAPI/NVENC/Cuda in FFMPEG\GStreamer) In-death knowledge with streaming technologies: RTMP, RTSP, RTP, HLS, DASH-MPEG, as well as different video/audio containers/codecs: H.264, VP8, VP9, AAC, Opus, Vorbis, MP4, WebM. Working experience with VPP/FRR and DPDK/SDPK Implementation with IPv4 & IPv6. Interested in NFV, SDN (ODL, ONOS), Network Simulators, Bird, Quagga, IPv6, 6LoWPAN, BGP, RouteFlow and ICN/CCN/NDN/IPFS.