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Individual Speaker Profile

Mohamed Elsakhawy Back to Speakers Bureau


Date Joined: July 20, 2016
Country: Canada
Home Town: Waterloo
Zip Code: N2L 3G1
Registered for Upcoming Summit: No
Affiliations
  • Western University - From 2017-02-15 (Current)
Statement of Interest

VNF, container scheduling, HPC workloads in the cloud

Areas Of Expertise
  • Neutron
  • HPC
  • Academic Research
  • Largescale Deployments

IRC
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Bio

Mohamed received his PhD. in Computer Science and M.Sc . in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Western University, Canada, and his B.Sc. from Alexandria University, Egypt. He is a Systems Administrator at SHARCNET Supercomputing Consortium and served as the Operational Lead of the Compute Canada National Cloud team. The team is responsible for architecting, deploying, and operating OpenStack clouds that support very unique workloads, including ATLAS Tier-2 and the New-Horizons space probe big-data indexing platform. 

Mohamed became involved with Openstack in early 2015 and has been a frequent speaker/attendee of the Openstack summits. In 2017, he started the Southwestern Ontario User Group to get the Openstack user-base in the region to meet and share knowledge. He served as the Chair and the Vice-Chair of the Openstack User Committee in 2019 and 2020.   Over the last few years, he has been involved in the OpenStack community in other capacities including serving on the summit programming committee, forum selection committee, and in the UC elections. 

 


Presentations from previous and upcoming OpenInfra Summits:
Additional presentations:

Willing to present via video conference: Yes
Willing to travel to any country: Yes
Fluent in
  • English
  • Arabic

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