Sr Staff Engineer · Network Automation · Remote / US

Automating hybrid cloud networks, preparing for qubits

Seventeen years writing software, the last twelve applying it to networks. I architect networks for distributed systems — automation-first platforms for hybrid cloud enterprise with security policy and telemetry built in rather than bolted on — and I have carried that across the whole estate: AWS and Azure, data-center fabrics, SD-WAN, wireless, NAC, and the escalation desk for the incidents nobody else can explain. Now building toward quantum networking through Georgia Tech and the University of Chicago.

17+
Years in Software
12
Years Network Engineering
R&D
Current Focus
Q-Net
Quantum Networking · In Progress

Automation as the through-line — across the whole network estate

[ 01 ]

Network Automation Platforms

Intended-state platforms that continuously fetch actual state across AWS, Azure, on-prem fabrics, and firewalls, alert on drift, and converge automatically — or promote the observed change into a new intended state. JanusGraph, Temporal, FastAPI, Batfish.

[ 02 ]

Security Policy-as-Code

Consolidating disparate policy authorities — Cisco FTD/ASA, Palo Alto, Azure NSG, Zscaler ZPA — into RBAC-enforced, CI/CD-consumable self-service. Zero trust as a platform property, not a project.

[ 03 ]

Telemetry & AI/ML

OpenTelemetry pipelines, flow analysis, and ML-driven anomaly detection with automated root-cause analysis across network, compute, and application layers.

[ 04 ]

Enterprise WAN, Wireless & NAC

Cisco Viptela SD-WAN across 13 sites, ASR 9000 WAN edge, Cisco ISE for NAC/802.1X on wireless and Catalyst switching, Meraki, and telemetry for the wireless estate. Ongoing capacity review across the full network, wireless included.

[ 05 ]

Data Plane & Kernel Networking

SONiC overlay integration with OpenStack, eBPF/XDP diagnostics and traffic shaping, Kubernetes CNI, and Linux kernel networking bridging on-prem and cloud. See the eBPF overlay lab →

[ 06 ]

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

AWS (VPC, TGW, PrivateLink), Azure hybrid tenancy, GCP; distributed provisioning via AWX and Nautobot; F5, DNS/IPAM, and high-availability architectures at scale.

[ 07 ]

Incident Resolution & SLA Delivery

L4 escalation for complex cross-layer incidents since 2019, and ad-hoc initiatives to identify, prioritize, and improve delivery of the SLAs that matter most. Off the on-call rotation; on the hook for the hard ones.

[ 08 ]

Architecture & Technical Leadership

Standards and design governance for a hybrid enterprise. Leading principal and junior engineers; integrator across application, security, infrastructure, and operations.

[ 09 ]

Quantum Networking · EMERGING

Bringing control-plane automation, telemetry, and AI security boundaries to quantum network operations. Coursework in progress at the University of Chicago and Georgia Tech — see Direction ↓

Tools of the trade

Languages

Golang C Python Bash Perl

Cloud Networking

AWS VPC / TGW PrivateLink Azure Hybrid GCP BGP / EVPN VXLAN / MPLS

Network Platforms

SONIC NOS Batfish Nautobot NetBox Infoblox F5 ILB/GLB

Enterprise WAN & Campus

Cisco Viptela SD-WAN ASR 9000 Catalyst Meraki Cisco ISE / NAC 802.1X Wireless Telemetry QoS

Security

Cisco FTD / ASA Palo Alto Azure NSG Zscaler ZPA ZTNA Cisco ISE Cisco WSA

Infrastructure

Kubernetes OpenStack Ansible/AWX Temporal FastAPI Nautobot eBPF

Data & Observability

JanusGraphDB Cassandra Splunk Kentik Prometheus Grafana Loki OpenTelemetry Neo4j PostgreSQL Jupyter Oracle Sybase

DevOps & CICD

CICD Pipelines DNS/IPAM CNI Linux Kernel

Quantum Networking · Studying

QKD Entanglement Distribution Quantum Repeaters Classical Control Plane

Where I've built

Sept 2013 — Aug 2026

Staff Engineer → Sr Staff Engineer

GEICO

Technical lead for network software engineering across a hybrid enterprise. The resume gives the one-page version; here is the longer arc.

  • Network traffic management platform — holds intended routing and security-policy state, continuously fetches actual state from AWS, Azure, on-prem fabrics, and firewalls, alerts on drift, and either converges automatically or promotes the change into a new intended state. Built to enforce SLAs and to tolerate frequent updates from many change sources. JanusGraph, Temporal, FastAPI, Batfish; RBAC-enforced, CI/CD-consumable, ticket-free for application teams.
  • Enterprise WAN, wireless & NAC — implemented Cisco Viptela SD-WAN across 13 sites; deployed Cisco ISE for NAC/802.1X on the wireless estate and Catalyst switching; built telemetry for the existing wireless network; ASR 9000 WAN edge. Capacity review across the full network, including wireless.
  • Provisioning automation — distributed provisioning on AWX with Nautobot as the source of truth; auditable, idempotent changes through CI/CD alongside application code.
  • Telemetry & AIOps — AI/ML on network telemetry for anomaly detection and automated RCA, correlating network metrics with user-facing impact; OpenTelemetry pipelines with tail sampling.
  • Data plane R&D — SONiC–OpenStack overlay integration as an open-NOS proof of concept; eBPF/XDP for overlay diagnostics and traffic shaping; Kubernetes CNI and Linux kernel networking. Author of the open-source network-tshoot-tools eBPF toolkit — write-up and reproducible lab here.
  • Architecture & escalation — since 2019, architecture lead and L4 escalation point for complex cross-layer incidents; ad-hoc initiatives to identify and improve delivery of the most critical SLAs. Led principal and junior engineers.
Aug 2003 — Feb 2005

Systems Analyst

AOL

DB Operations — 24×7 support of Oracle, Sybase, and SQL systems. Root cause analysis, queue management, and operational reliability.

Dec 1999 — Oct 2002

Software Engineer

Call Technologies / 3Com

Telephony software engineering — custom IVR systems and CDR processing built in C/C++. Full software lifecycle from requirements through delivery.

Bringing classical automation to quantum networks

Quantum networks are leaving the lab. When they do, they will need what every production network needs — a control plane, a source of truth, telemetry that surfaces drift, and security boundaries that hold. Those are the problems I have spent twelve years solving for hybrid cloud at enterprise scale. I am now building the quantum foundations to apply that experience where it will matter next.

In Progress · Completion Dec 2026

Quantum Networking Certificate

University of Chicago — 8-week program

Quantum key distribution, entanglement distribution, quantum repeaters, and the classical control-plane requirements of quantum network architectures.

In Progress · Georgia Tech OMSCS

Quantum Computing

Georgia Institute of Technology — graduate coursework

Qubits, gates, and algorithms as the substrate for quantum communication — building the theoretical grounding beneath the networking layer.

  • Intended vs. actual stateThe drift-detection and convergence model I built for cloud routing and firewall policy maps directly onto quantum link and entanglement-resource management.
  • Telemetry & anomaly detectionQuantum channels degrade in ways classical ones do not; ML-driven telemetry pipelines are how operators will see it before users do.
  • AI security boundariesWhere AI agents touch key management and network control, the boundaries need to be architected, not assumed — quantum or classical.

Always learning

In Progress · 2028

MS Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology · quantum computing coursework
In Progress · Dec 2026

Quantum Networking Certificate

University of Chicago · 8-week program
Completed · 2003

BS Mathematics

Montana Tech
Completed · 2022

AI/ML Applied Data Science

MIT — Short Course

Away from the keyboard

  • Cooking
  • Swimming
  • Mountain biking
  • Time with family
Available for Engagements

Let's build something together

Open to full-time, contract, and consulting opportunities in network automation, telemetry, and security — and to quantum networking roles where classical control-plane and operations experience is the missing piece. R&D-oriented work preferred, with selective operational scope. Remote or US-based.