eric@arcrayde: ~/portfolio
zsh$ whoami
$ cat bio.txt
AI Curious
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I work on the parts of a network that decide whether everything else behaves: how routes are chosen, how traffic is segmented and carried, and where the authoritative record of it all actually lives.
Most network problems I care about are really data problems. A single source of truth turns a network from a collection of device configs into something you can query, validate and automate against — so changes stop being folklore and start being reproducible.
When something breaks, I'd rather read the packets than guess. Capture first, form a theory second — Wireshark has settled more arguments than any diagram.
Lately I'm AI curious: poking at where models are genuinely useful in network operations, and where they are just an expensive way to be confidently wrong.
profile.yaml
capabilities.tbl
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source-of-truth/
Making the network queryable. One authoritative record of sites, devices, addressing and circuits — so intent lives in data rather than in a device config someone edited at 2am, and every downstream tool reads from the same place.
automation/
Driving configuration from that record instead of by hand. Templated generation, pre-change validation and repeatable rollout, so a change is reviewable before it touches production and reproducible after it does.
routing/
The control plane end of the job: BGP policy and path selection, OSPF areas and convergence behavior, MPLS transport underneath, and the L2 design that has to stay boring for any of it to work.
packet-analysis/
Evidence over intuition. Capturing at the right point in the path and reading what actually happened on the wire — handshakes, retransmits, MTU and timing — to separate the real fault from the convincing story about it.
vnf/
Network functions as software: routers, firewalls and gateways running virtualised, which makes lab topologies disposable and lets a design be tested before it is bought.
secure-connectivity/
Getting traffic between sites and users without trusting the path in between — tunnel design, routing over the overlay, and keeping the failure modes understood rather than discovered.
Open to conversations about network infrastructure, automation, and where AI actually earns its place in operations. The inbox is the fastest route.
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