Sabri started his career as a researcher at the Université of Bruxelles in the graph layout area. He published several scientific papers on generic algorithms able to draw graphs according to the semantic of the application domain.

At Alcatel-Lucent he has been working on the JAIN SLEE container. He has developed the J2EE, JAIN SIP, SMPP, DIAMETER Ro, MLP, INAP and other resource adaptors and has participated to the architecture of the container.

Afterwards, he was responsible for the evolution of the OSP Telecom Application Server towards JAVA, J2EE and JSLEE. Today, he leads the Euranova R&D department and manages internal research projects, back office R&D requests, technological watch for customers, technical assessments and innovation forums within Euranova.