TAKWA SEBAI
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RAN VALIDATION PORTFOLIO · TAKWA SEBAI

RAN validation that survives review.

Telecom technical manager with 10+ years across 4G/5G RAN validation, network OSS, automation and technical team leadership.

I connect the requested network state, the observed radio state, the decoded trace and the delivered service before I name a cause.

Takwa Sebai, telecom technical manager specialising in 4G and 5G RAN validation
Telecom engineer · Technical manager · Founder of HiCellTek
  1. 01ConfiguredWhat the network was asked to provide.
  2. 02ActiveWhat the UE and network actually activated.
  3. 03ScheduledWhat resources were made available in the same interval.
  4. 04DeliveredWhat the application and service finally received.

TWO DECISIONS · ONE PROOF BASE

Are you assessing the engineer or the product?

The evidence stays the same. The decision, and therefore the next useful action, does not.

RECRUITER · TECHNICAL LEADER

You need to know what I can own.

Inspect the cases, the operating scope and the decisions I keep reviewable. Then write with the role, technical perimeter and decision authority.

Discuss a role

OPERATOR · INTEGRATOR · PRODUCT BUYER

You need to know what HiCellTek changes in the workflow.

Follow the path from live capture and decoded signalling to a controlled test and an evidence handoff. Product claims stop at the same proof boundary as the engineering analysis.

Evaluate the workflow

SELECTED EVIDENCE

The conclusion stops at the first missing proof.

These records show the engineering decision, the decisive observation and the boundary that remains.

LTE requested target state compared with the active serving state
Real case, anonymised reconstruction. Public cell identifiers are withheld.

CASE 001 · CONTROL PLANE TO ACTIVE RADIO STATE

The command answered. The serving state still had to be proved.

Decision
Did the requested LTE target become the active serving cell?
Positive evidence
The target PCI became the active serving PCI during the controlled refresh.
Boundary
No internal modem root cause and no portability claim across modem families.
Read the evidence file
Controlled 5G NSA upload campaign with application, route and radio evidence gates
Controlled campaign. Ten application runs completed; two met the declared radio validity contract.

CASE 002 · 5G NSA THROUGHPUT VALIDATION

Ten uploads completed. That did not make ten comparisons valid.

Decision
Could BBR and CUBIC be compared while the 5G NSA bearer state changed?
Positive evidence
Only one run per branch met the pre-declared radio validity contract.
Boundary
No algorithm winner. The surviving sample was below the declared minimum.
Read the campaign record
HiCellTek mobile network diagnostic application showing live radio and decoded Layer 3 context

PRODUCT PROOF · HICELLTEK

I did not stop at describing the field problem.

I founded HiCellTek and took an Android radio-diagnostics product from field need to commercial delivery. The mobile workflow brings serving and neighbour context, advanced radio parameters, decoded RRC or NAS messages and controlled HTTP tasks into one investigation path.

Engineering boundary: one application screen is an observation. A defensible RCA still needs aligned clocks, a controlled comparison and the first missing proof.

EXPERIENCE LEDGER

From network applications to a field product.

  1. 2014 → 2017

    Freelance Telecommunications Software Engineer · Self-employed

    Designed and evolved mobile and web applications, from requirements and functional or technical specifications to testing, acceptance, change management and user documentation.

  2. 2017 → 2019

    Telecom Business Analyst · Novatel IT

    Network-application validation, mobile anomaly reporting, BSS KPI analysis and quality-assurance plans.

  3. 2019 → 2020

    Tech Lead · Davidson Telecom & IT, Lyon

    Led a field telecom application project, a five-developer team, Agile delivery and code review.

  4. Since 2020

    Founder · HiCellTek

    Product design and development for automated 2G to 5G SA radio diagnostics, QoS/QoE analysis and supported Analyzer workflows.

  5. 2020 → today

    OSS Network Technical Lead · SFR

    Critical application subsystem, Cisco NSO and ZTP industrialisation on private cloud, multi-vendor delivery, KPIs and supplier governance.

WORKING SCOPE

What I can carry into a technical team.

RAN validation
Versioned test catalogues, multi-site campaigns, interoperability, regression, go/no-go, waivers and rollback.
Trace and RCA
RRC and NAS decoding, active-state verification, KPI baselines and synchronised evidence boundaries.
OSS and industrialisation
Critical network applications, automation, capacity, operability KPIs, private cloud and supplier handoff.
Technical leadership
Cross-functional arbitration, quality governance, expert coaching and decisions that remain reviewable.

PUBLISHED FIELD WORK

The methods are available for inspection.

Recruiters and engineering teams can read the same material I use to explain a decision boundary.

ONE MESSAGE · ONE DECISION

Tell me what you are deciding.

A useful first message names the role or product question, the technical perimeter and the next decision. No generic discovery call is required.