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Infrastructure & Systems Engineer

12+ years building and operating network infrastructure at scale—data centers, backbone systems, cloud connectivity—and the platforms that monitor it all.

Currently building rustbgpd, an API-first BGP daemon for IXP route servers and route reflectors.

Latest: 700 Clients, 400,400 Routes: rustbgpd vs BIRD vs OpenBGPD

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Experience

>Led backbone network migrations from legacy platforms to Juniper infrastructure across global data centers

>Designed hybrid SATCOM connectivity using LEO and GEO satellite services with automated failover

>Architected multi-tenant telemetry platform processing 2,000+ metrics/hour

>Built secure internal tooling including OIDC/PKCE authentication with Azure Government support

Skills

Network

CiscoJuniperPalo AltoSATCOMLinux

Cloud

AWSAzure GovDockerKubernetes

Languages

TypeScriptRustGoPython

Projects

rustbgpdRust59

API-first BGP daemon for IXP route servers and route reflectors. gRPC owns peer lifecycle, routing, and policy with no restarts. Benchmarked against BIRD and OpenBGPD, every claim backed by a published receipt

ttlRust1447

Modern traceroute TUI with continuous path monitoring, ECMP discovery, ASN/geo enrichment, and MPLS extraction

xfrRust533

Modern iperf3 alternative with live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support, and result diffing

prefixdRust82

BGP FlowSpec policy daemon for automated DDoS mitigation with playbook-driven responses and GoBGP integration. Featured by FastNetMon & DE-CIX

nboxRust11

TUI, CLI, and MCP server for NetBox — fast search, IPAM lookups, and device context for operators and agents

rookeryRust / Leptos

Local inference command center — hot-swap LLM models, GPU monitoring via NVML, agent lifecycle management, and auto-sleep with health canaries

WeathermapNGPHP11

Modern LibreNMS plugin for network topology visualization with web-based map editor