Saeid Ghobadi
Founder and CEO
Enterprise networking, cloud, and applied AI
Principal engineer with 15+ years across networking, cloud, and AI. Started SMEnode to put senior engineers in the room from the first call.
- CCIE
- Cisco ACI
- Zero Trust
The team
Senior architects on every call
Every engagement runs through engineers who've built and run enterprise networks for fifteen years. CCIE-grade depth, applied-AI fluency, and direct access. No layers, no handoff to juniors.
- 15+ yrs
- Principal engineering depth
- CCIE
- Expert-level certification on staff
- 4 hubs
- Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver
- 10
- Engineers, no middle layer
Founder
Saeid Ghobadi
Founder and CEO
Enterprise networking, cloud, and applied AI
"Clients should talk to the person who designs the fix, not a sales layer that relays it back a week later."
Founder and CEO of SMEnode. Principal engineer with 15+ years across enterprise networking, cloud architecture, and applied AI. He started SMEnode to put CCIE-grade engineers in the room from the first call, and to wire AI into operations rather than bolt it on after the fact.
- CCIE
- Cisco ACI
- Zero Trust
The engineers
Who will you actually work with?
Ten engineers across networking, security, cloud, and AI. Each one carries client work end to end, from the first architecture call to the change window at 2 a.m.
Aisha Rahman
Security Lead
Zero Trust and identity
Threat modelling and identity. Builds to Bill C-26 and SOC 2 from the first diagram.
- CISSP
- Zero Trust
- SOC 2
Daniel Okafor
AI Engineering Lead
Retrieval-augmented operations
Wires retrieval-augmented systems into ops tooling. Less noise, faster triage.
- Applied AI
- RAG
- Python
Elena Popov
Data and AI Engineer
Pipelines and evaluation
Pipelines and evaluation harnesses behind the AI work. Numbers over vibes.
- Data Eng
- MLOps
- SQL
Hannah Boucher
Network Security Engineer
Firewall and segmentation
Firewall and segmentation across F5 and Palo Alto estates.
- F5
- Palo Alto
- NAC
Marc Tremblay
Cloud Practice Lead
Landing zones and multi-cloud
Landing-zone and multi-cloud architecture. Migrated 40+ workloads off on-prem.
- AWS Pro
- Azure Expert
- Terraform
Omar Haddad
Cloud Reliability Engineer
SLOs and cost control
SLOs, incident response, and cost control across AWS and Azure.
- SRE
- AWS
- FinOps
Priya Nair
Principal Network Architect
Data-centre fabric and SD-WAN
Leads data-centre and SD-WAN builds. Ten years in service-provider cores before enterprise.
- CCIE R&S
- Cisco ACI
- SD-WAN
Ren Takahashi
Platform Engineer
CI/CD and observability
CI/CD and observability. Treats your pipeline like production from commit one.
- Kubernetes
- GitOps
- Observability
Sophie Lavoie
Compliance Architect
PIPEDA and ISO 27001
Maps controls to PIPEDA and ISO 27001 so audits stop being fire drills.
- ISO 27001
- PIPEDA
- GRC
How we work
What do we hold ourselves to?
Three habits keep our work senior and accountable. The engineer who scopes your network configures it, we run AI against real telemetry instead of slide decks, and we build to Canadian compliance standards from day one rather than retrofitting them under audit pressure.
01
Senior hands on the keyboard
The person who scopes your network is the person who configures it. No translation loss between sales, project management, and delivery.
02
AI in operations, not in slides
We run retrieval and automation against real telemetry. The goal is fewer pages at 3 a.m., not a demo that never ships.
03
Canadian compliance by default
Bill C-26, PIPEDA, SOC 2, ISO 27001. We design to the standard from day one rather than retrofitting it under audit pressure.