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Nidal S.

Sr. Network Architect | ISP & WISP Network Expert | Leader

✅-- Enterprise ISP Architect ✅-- WISP Expert ✅-- Linux/Windows Integration and Identity Management. ✅-- F5/HAproxy/nginx Expert ✅-- Advanced IPsec VPN ikev1/ikev2 troubleshooter ✅-- Monitoring and Logging Expert ✅-- Automation via Ansible ✅-- Familiar with ACI Infrastructure ✅-- RIPE/ARIN/AFRINIC Administrator I am an experienced and confident (Network/System) engineer/architect with 17+ years' experience in a variety of network environments like in WISP/ISP with vendors of [ Cisco | Juniper | Mikrotik | Checkpoint | F5 | PRTG | VPN ] as in more details below: ✅-- Networking 1️⃣ Cisco (Routing & Switching) 2️⃣ Juniper ( Routing & Security ) 3️⃣ Mikrotik ( Routing, Switching & Wireless ) 4️⃣ Huawei ( Fiber and Routing ) 5️⃣ Brocade + Vyatta & Vyos ( Routing ) 6️⃣ Ubiquity & Unifi ( Routing, Switching and Wireless ) 7️⃣ Netonix Switches WISP 8️⃣ Ceragon, Siklu and Mimosa ( Microwaves ) 9️⃣ Cambium ( Wireless ) 🔟 Draytek and Fritzbox ( Routing & Security ) ✅-- Automation 1️⃣ Ansible 2️⃣ Python ✅-- Load balancers 1️⃣ F5 ( BIG-IP ) 2️⃣ HAproxy 3️⃣ nginx 4️⃣ Kemp ✅-- Monitoring 1️⃣ PRTG 2️⃣ Zabbix 3️⃣ Cacti 4️⃣ Nagios 5️⃣ LibreNMS 6️⃣ Other ( Centreon - icinga - ELK - Splunk ) ✅-- Systems 1️⃣ Windows Servers 2012/2016/2019/2022 ( ActiveDirectory, DNS, DHCP, File/Print, IIS, SQL-Server, WSUS, Terminal Services, RemoteAPP, DFS, Exchange-Mail ) 2️⃣ Linux Centos/Ubuntu ( Postfix, Bind, Squid, Apache, Nginx, iptables, Firewalld, FreeIPA, Container, Docker, python ) 3️⃣ VMware vSphere environment. ( Cluster, vSAN, vmotion, DRS, iSCSI, RAID, NSX ) 4️⃣ Storage ( QNAP - Synology - FreeNAS - Openfiler - NAS4Free - Nexentastor ) ✅-- Other skills 1️⃣ More than 8 Years of experience in wireless networks (Ubiquity – Meraki - Cisco Aironet – Motorola - Ceragon) 2️⃣ Expert knowledge of TCP/IP, routing & switching, backup’s strategies, VOIP, QoS, firewalling, IPv6 and overall network security 3️⃣ Advanced VPN knowledge and troubleshooter 4️⃣ MPLS/VPLS/MP-BGP/VRF/L2VPN/L3VPN 5️⃣ Cisco ACI hands-on. 6️⃣ Backup with Veeam

🇵🇸Gaza, Palestinian Territories$60/hr100% JSS4.92 (180)Since Oct 2015

Earnings and projects

MRR (estimate)
≈$2.4k

An estimate from an earlier read

World#17,759 / 412k
🇵🇸Country#23 / 676
Revenue, last 30 days
$2.6k

Last 6 months: $14k

World#15,387 / 412k
🇵🇸Country#23 / 676
Total earnings
$325k

Billed in all: $333k

World#6,643 / 412k
🇵🇸Country#6 / 676
Per project
$1.3k

$2.9k in the last 6 months

World#105,076 / 412k
🇵🇸Country#111 / 676
Projects, last 6 months
5
0% fixed100% hourly
World#41,746 / 412k
🇵🇸Country#38 / 676
Projects in all
251

Across 272 contracts

47% fixed53% hourly
World#6,714 / 412k
🇵🇸Country#10 / 676

Earnings, last 30 days

$333k+$2.4k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$330k$332k$334kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

No data since Nov 5, 2026.

Skill rankings: #1 in 1 skill of 10

Rarest: top 3% in Mikrotik RouterBOARD, of 30. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

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