Welcome — notes from a network security engineer

This is the first post on my new site.

I’ve been doing network engineering for about a decade — from Cisco ASA and Meraki at JLL, to Palo Alto and NSX at Camping World, to short stints with Mastercard’s security team. I’ve decided to start writing it down.

What I’ll be writing about

Three buckets, mostly:

1. Firewall and security work — Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, Juniper. Real configs, real migrations, real outages.
2. Network automation — Python and Terraform for the things we used to click through CLIs for. Less “intro to Ansible” and more “here’s the script that saved me 14 hours.”
3. Cloud networking — Azure (mostly), AWS (occasionally), and the hybrid setups in between. ExpressRoute, VNet peering, the works.

Why a personal site

Two reasons:

• LinkedIn posts disappear. Markdown files don’t.
• Writing forces me to actually understand the thing I just shipped.

How to follow

Bookmark /blog, follow me on LinkedIn, or check back on Sundays — that’s when I plan to publish.

Onward.