Syed Hassan, Principal Telco Architect, Red Hat

Syed F. Hassan is a Principal Telecommunications Architect at Red Hat, providing consultancy services to 5G service providers globally. In his 20+ year of experience, he has provided guidance, strategy, and planning support to various Internet, Cloud, and Mobile service providers in their adoption of innovative networking technologies and transformation of their networks to new architectures.

Syed has co-authored multiple books on leading technologies. He is the co-author of the first book on NFV and SDN, as well as the first book for 5G Network Architects ("A Network Architect's Guide to 5G"). He has been a regular speaker in public forums and conferences. Syed is a double CCIE in Service Provider and Data Center technologies (#21617), Google Certified Professional Cloud Networking Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), and a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift Administration.

He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from NED University (Pakistan) and a master's degree in engineering from the University of Florida.