Network Automation · Data Center · DevOps
Turning network operations into code.
01 About
I'm a network engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, migrating, and operating data center and campus networks: Cisco IOS-XE and NX-OS, Palo Alto firewalls, BGP, OSPF, IPsec, and VXLAN/EVPN fabrics.
Along the way I kept finding the same thing: the best outcomes came from replacing repeated manual work with scripts, templates, and APIs. That is the work I want to do full-time. I write Python, Ansible, and REST-driven tooling to make network changes repeatable, testable, and boring.
Today I'm a Delivery Network Engineer at US Signal, and I recently earned the Cisco Automation Core specialist certification (AUTOCOR) to go with my CCNP Enterprise. I'm looking for a role where network engineering and DevOps practices meet.
02 Experience
03 Projects
A Model Context Protocol server built with FastMCP that exposes Netmiko to AI assistants as tools: list inventory, run show commands, and push configuration to Cisco IOS devices. Credentials are loaded from environment variables.
Ansible-driven Arista fabric (underlay, overlay, VLANs) deployed through a GitLab CI pipeline: dry-run validation on every merge request, then a manual-gated deploy from main, with backup and rollback playbooks.
Designed and deployed a Nexus VXLAN/EVPN fabric to improve data center interconnect and scalability for a four-hospital health system.
Led the migration of two production data centers to offsite facilities while maintaining availability for clinical systems.
Replaced a hospital core and integrated 60+ access switch stacks, with documented procedures and rollback plans for each stage.
A virtualized lab for testing automation against emulated network topologies before touching production.
04 Education
Kuyper College
05 Certifications
06 Contact
Hiring for network automation, network reliability, or DevOps? I'd like to hear about it. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn.
Kalamazoo, Michigan · Open to remote and hybrid