Jad Seifeddine
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Solutions architecture & leadership

Solutions architecture and technical leadership

Architecture that starts from the business problem, and hands-on leadership that leaves teams stronger than they were.

What I do

  • Architecture reviews of existing platforms, with prioritised risk and cost findings
  • Target-state designs and staged migration plans
  • Build-versus-buy analysis and open-source evaluation
  • Leading cross-functional teams across network, systems, platform and development
  • Mentoring engineers in infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability
  • Documentation, runbooks and handover that outlast the engagement

How I approach it

Good architecture is mostly about trade-offs made explicit. I write down the options, the costs and the risks, recommend one, and make it easy for the people who will run the system to challenge it.

Leadership, for me, is technical. I stay hands-on, set standards by example and invest in the people who will own the system after I am gone.

Track record

  • Lead cross-functional teams to ship robust, scalable solutions that improve performance, resilience and cost.

    Profile

  • Led and mentored the IT team in Terraform, Jenkins CI/CD and Grafana/Prometheus practices.

    Next Generation Networks

  • Led a comprehensive Azure/AWS cloud-migration strategy.

    Next Generation Networks

  • Designed and maintain PowerDNS-AuthAdmin: multi-backend DNS administration with RBAC, OIDC SSO and an append-only audit log.

    Open source

Related projects

PowerDNS-AuthAdmin

A modern, self-hosted DNS administration UI for PowerDNS Authoritative.

TypeScriptAuthor and maintainer

FAQ

Questions people ask

Does Jad Seifeddine lead engineering teams?

Yes. Jad leads cross-functional teams across networking, systems and platform engineering, and has led and mentored IT teams in infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability practices while staying hands-on in the code and infrastructure.

What does a solutions architecture engagement with Jad Seifeddine involve?

It usually starts with a review of the current platform and the business goals, followed by a written target-state design with options, costs and risks, a staged migration plan, and hands-on help delivering the first stages with the team that will own the result.

Have a hard infrastructure problem?

Open to select consulting, contract and advisory work. Tell me what you are building and where it hurts.

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