Network Engineering Manager | Architecting Resilient Backbone and Datacenter Solutions | 25+ years designing Internet edge, EVPN/VXLAN fabrics, and Segment Routing infrastructures.
Backbone Architecture
At 2 AM on a Tuesday, my phone buzzed with a WhatsApp message: "You awake? Do you mind if I call you? I'm in the weeds..." A friend's Route Reflector (RR) on a transit Provider Edge (PE) router had just starved to death. Keepalives
Backbone Architecture
Physical Layer
Physical Layer
Leadership
Leadership
Network Fundamentals
DDoS Defense
DDoS Defense
A note before we begin: What follows is my perspective forged from decades of operational scars. It's not gospel it's one engineer's hard-won opinion. Take what's useful to you and feel free to challenge the rest. I stood in the war room