Senior Network Engineer | Cisco DevNet Specialist | F5 DevCentral MVP
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
I have more than 15 years of experience in the networking field, working with devices from different vendors in corporate and data center environments. I've worked in network integration (Sistec), ISP (Telekom), application service provider (Yardi Systems), online gambling (Betfair), private cloud (Otava), and VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions). I am currently a Principal Network Engineer at AspenTech. I love working with load-balancing (F5/Netscaler), Network Security, and Network Automation.
Networking & Security: Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA/Nexus/ASR/Catalyst, Arista, Juniper SRX/Netscreen, Fortinet, Clavister firewalls; OSPF, BGP, STP, vPC, ACLs, VPNs (site-to-site, remote access), Cisco Meraki WiFi
Load Balancing & ADC: F5 LTM/BigIP, Citrix Netscaler (MPX/SDX/VPX), content switching, iRules conversion to responder policies
SD-WAN & Cloud: SilverPeak/Aruba SD-WAN, Google Cloud
Monitoring & Tools: SolarWinds (NPM/NCM/UDT), Smokeping, Observium
Scripting & Other: Ansible automation, AWX, Python
Designing, deploying, and managing secure and high-performance network infrastructures. Hands-on with Palo Alto firewalls (and Panorama), Aruba/SilverPeak SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki WiFi, Cisco Catalyst 9300/9200, and PowerShell automation.
Network Design team: network analysis, risk assessments, Life Cycle Management, load-balancing consultancy (F5 LTM). End-to-end design for SD-WAN and Public Cloud solutions. Redesigning legacy networks to new firewalls (Juniper).
Engineering Team for Cloud Infrastructure: Cisco ASR, Fortinet and Clavister firewalls, Arista and Cumulus switches, Ansible, AWX. Monitoring with Smokeping and Observium.
Migration from F5 LTM to Citrix Netscaler; conversion of iRules/profiles to Netscaler policies. Network security and ADC projects. New Citrix MPX/SDX deployment. SolarWinds monitoring with multiple polling engines.
Corp and datacenter network: ADC (F5 LTM, Citrix Netscaler MPX/SDX/VPX), firewalls (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, Juniper), switches (Cisco 4500/6500, Nexus, Arista), routers (Cisco 7200, ASR). OSPF, BGP, STP, vPC, load balancing, VPNs, Solarwinds Orion NPM/NCM/UDT.
Corp and ASP: network devices, technical support, planning, testing, performance tuning, troubleshooting. Cisco ASA (5510/5520/5540), routers (2851, 2951, 3845, 3945), Catalyst 2900/3750. F5 BigIP LTM, Riverbed, Radware IDS/IPS, Solarwinds Orion, virtualization, Nessus, Websense, Meraki.
Install and configure routers, switches, APs, modems for INTERNET, VPN, VoIP. Cisco 800/1800/2800/2900/3800, Allied-Telesis, Catalyst 2900, Cisco IP phones and APs.