Network Engineering Ability
As a Network Engineer, I have Switch Engineer experience in Data Center, Industrial and Enterprise Environments. In routing, I’ve worked in networks leveraging BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and static routing; I’ve also learned about blackholes. I’ve covered all routing topics covered on The Cisco ENCOR exam and my CCNA expired in March of 2022; as well I’ve passed the exam for the JNCIA (Juniper Networks Certified Associate) in 2021.
Automation Ability
In the Enterprise Automation realm I’ve minimally used tools like; cron, ansible and python’s pexpect module; in one case leveraging cron to spawn ansible tasks (avoiding Ansible’s cron module), and further to spawn a python task used to serialize the data collected by Ansible for future interpolation. I completed my JCNIA-DEVOPS Exam (Automation and Devops, Associate) in October of 2023.
Systems Engineering Ability
I’ve worked in unix-like systems for over a decade; becoming knowledgable with the GNU-coreutils, basic directory structure, package management, file permissions, bash scripting and more. I would consider myself a Jr. Linux Engineer or maybe a 1; though I’ve mentored and knowledge shared with Linux Engineers throughout my career.
Development Ability
Though I’ve worked with programming languages and IDE’s for a life time (hours here and there), I’m currently learning to be efficient with Python, though still consider myself a beginner. Scripts I’ve developed for enterprise application include; template scripts for configuration and a data serialization and interpolation project started. I’m currently taking a programming in python course now and have also previously taken collegiate level classes; Introduction to Programming and Introduction to Programming in C. I’ve also started working with and started classes for development tools like POSTMAN, as well I am now familiar with and have used data models, of course with ansible for example.