User:Maina Mukhangu Noah

Maina Mukhangu Noah, (born December 25, 1985) is a Ugandan Computer Networks Architect, and Open-Source Script writer. He has gained much respect for his work within the ISP Industry in the East African region since late 2006. He started his carrier as a Computer Networks Engineer at the age of 20, working as an instructor at the Regional Cisco Networking Academy based in Makerere University in his home city of Kampala, Uganda.

It's from his role at the Cisco Networking Academy, that he gained extensive hands on experience working with Cisco networking kit/gears.

Noah is also a Co-founder of Neo TMT a Technology, Media and Telecoms Company and also the Network and Security Architect in the Research & Development labs of Neo TMT "Neolabs". He has been with Neo TMT since its inception in 2010.

His role in Neo TMT includes business development, providing consultation to clients and developing products and solutions for start-ups and small ISP's in Tanzania and the East Africans region. He concentrates specifically on Network Security, VOIP solutions research& development, network design, deployment and operations/scaling.

Noah was also instrumental in the creation of “Neolabs”, an initiative of Neo TMT whose sole purpose is to carry out R&D in networking technologies, security and VOIP solutions. He also trains Computer Networks Engineers from various corporations including ISP's. He also trains in various conferences and boot-camps around the regions and Africa including the annual AfNOG conference.

His other key competence includes Open-source VOIP, Mail, DNS and network security deployments. Noah has built a couple of open-source based secure Mail, DNS and VOIP servers for ISP's and other corporations.

Prior to co-founding Neo TMT, he spent 5 years working for WiA a regional ISP in Tanzania as a Founding Network and Security Engineer between late 2006 and 2010, where he designed and deployed the entire core network of WiA running IS-IS and BGP dynamic routing protocols powered by Cisco Routers hence being promoted from the network engineering role to an Architectural role.

He also deployed the Security Firewalls (Cisco ASA) and Linux-based IPtables access-control rules that helped mitigate risk and protected Mail, Web, DNS, Databases and VOIP servers as a counter-measure.

A year before joining WIA, Noah was instrumental in the development of the CCNA/CCNP Labs a division of the Makerere University Faculty of Computing and IT, Cisco Networking Regional Academy in Uganda. He helped transform the academy's focus from a theoretical based training to a more practical hand’s on training using hardware Routers and Switches.

As is common with startups in developing worlds, Noah's time at WIA helped him gain extensive experience in the engineering role in an ISP environment, from support technician, network engineering, operations and deployment, thus assuming full responsibility for the entire WIA core network operations.

He is a member of AfNOG (the African regional annual ISP operational and technology conference) as well as seats on its Program Committee as a co-chair. Through WIA, Noah is also a member of the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Associations (TISPA).

Noah was recognized during the 10th anniversary Global Cisco Networking Academy recognition program. He was awarded a carrier recognition award by Cisco. Noah holds industrial certifications like the Cisco CCNA, CCNP and Sun/Oracle SCSA. He also holds the Secure Registry and Scalable Services and Infrastructure certifications from AfTLD and AfNOG.