Routing & network engineering
BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, anycast, EVPN/VXLAN, MPLS, TCP/IP, ARP, VLANs, ECMP, MTU/MSS, GRE, IPsec, and traffic-path validation.
Network Engineer / Escalation Engineer
I troubleshoot complex networks and distributed systems.
I’m Hunter, a network and support engineer with 9+ years of experience across large-scale networked environments, cloud platforms, customer-facing escalations, and mission-critical infrastructure.
Experience
A background built around escalation ownership, packet-level troubleshooting, observability, and production network operations.
Mar 2026 - May 2026
Network Engineer · Cloudflare
Worked across production network environments involving BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, EVPN/VXLAN, MPLS, anycast architectures, routing policy, forwarding behavior, optical transport faults, and multi-vendor platforms.
Apr 2024 - May 2026
Senior Escalation Engineer · Cloudflare
Led high-impact escalations across Cloudflare products including R2, Cache, Stream, Images, Bot Management, WAF, Magic Transit, Magic WAN, and Argo while partnering with Engineering and Product teams.
Aug 2021 - Apr 2024
Escalation Engineer · Cloudflare
Troubleshot L3/L4/L7 issues across HTTP/S, APIs, caching, CDN behavior, DNS, application security, cloud-native architectures, logs, metrics, traces, and customer-facing incidents.
2017 - 2021
Technical Analyst / Service Desk · Arvest Bank
Supported VMware, hypervisors, vSphere, Cisco ISE, InfoBlox, Active Directory, Wireshark, VPN troubleshooting, hardware/software support, and internal documentation for large enterprise teams.
Technical focus
Practical experience across routing, network security, Linux diagnostics, observability, and distributed systems troubleshooting.
Linux troubleshooting
Packet-level investigation and diagnostics using curl, dig, traceroute, mtr, tcpdump, netcat, ss, iproute2, tshark, and Wireshark.
Observability & reliability
Analyzing logs, metrics, traces, and telemetry with Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus, ELK, SQL, and tracing/profiling tools.
Cloudflare products
Experience with R2, Cache, Stream, Images, Bot Management, WAF, Magic Transit, Magic WAN, Argo, HTTP/S, CDN, and API behavior.
Network platforms
Operational exposure across Junos, IOS-XR, NX-OS, EOS, SONiC, Cisco ISE, InfoBlox, NetBox, Jira, and Kubernetes environments.
Automation mindset
Hands-on experience with Bash, Python, Go, SaltStack, documentation, operational workflows, and repeatable troubleshooting processes.
Recent project
A practical AI/data center network design study focused on how separate fabrics, routing domains, and operational boundaries fit together.
AI data center fabric design
Designed and documented a multi-fabric AI infrastructure topology with a front-end EVPN/VXLAN fabric, GPU RDMA back-end fabric, NVMe-oF storage fabric, and out-of-band management network.
The design explores edge routing, border leaf placement, firewall inspection, spine-leaf connectivity, GPU compute racks, storage isolation, OOB access, ECMP, QoS, MTU consistency, and operational failure domains.
Transit Apublic eBGP
Transit Bpublic eBGP
Border / Firewallinspection + policy
EVPN Fabricfront-end VXLAN
GPU FabricRDMA / RoCEv2
StorageNVMe-oF isolated
Certifications
Validated networking and cloud fundamentals with hands-on production experience behind them.
Cisco Certified Network Associate
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Cloud Practitioner