About Me
I'm a staff software engineer and independent consultant. My background is in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and networking — but what I'm drawn to is the work underneath the domain: untangling complex systems, clarifying architecture, and helping teams build on a more solid footing.
I started out with an MSc in Physics & Nuclear Engineering before moving into software — a leap that turned out to suit me well. A decade later, across Ericsson, CloudSimple, and Google, I've found that the ability to build expertise in new domains quickly is one of my most valuable skills.
Experience
Working with teams on focused, short-term engagements — helping bring structure to software that has grown without it, clarifying architecture, or putting development practices on a more solid footing.
Recent Work
- Helped a university research department write software development guidelines from scratch to meet ISO standards
- Architecture reviews and hands-on technical advisory for engineering teams
Left Google to focus on a major life transition — a full home renovation, getting married, and starting a family.
Joined via Google's acquisition of CloudSimple. Promoted to Staff Software Engineer in 2021, acting as Tech Lead for the GCVE (Google Cloud VMware Engine) networking team.
Key Projects
- Led network/software architecture for vSAN Stretched Clusters as sole network TL — the largest and most complex networking feature in GCVE's history, involving 4 SWEs, Cisco, and Google Cloud Interconnect teams; unlocked a $360M+ market opportunity
- Designed the multi-row network infrastructure enabling GCVE and AVS to expand from single-site deployments to 10+ regions globally, supporting the product's largest customer deals
- Led VPC-SC security compliance work: defined the threat model, identified all potential exfiltration vectors, and designed mitigations across a complex multi-team environment
Leadership
- Tech lead for a team of up to 6 engineers across the US and India
- Conducted 40+ interviews; mentored engineers through 1:1s, design reviews, and structured onboarding
Joined as the second network engineer at an early-stage IaaS startup. Contributed across network engineering, software development, and CI/CD — taking over as lead datacenter network architect in September 2018. Acquired by Google in 2019.
Network Engineer / Architect
- Designed highly available, secure multi-tenant L2/L3 datacenter networks integrated with public clouds
- Troubleshot and resolved complex networking issues in production
- Co-authored patent application to secure corporate intellectual property
Software Engineer
- Designed and implemented highly available, distributed, stateful, containerized services for virtualized network
- Designed REST APIs exposing networking objects to the UI and internal services
- Delivered well-tested, maintainable code under deadline pressure
CI / Release Process
- Designed and automated versioning, branching and release workflows across dozens of projects
- Selected and implemented developer tooling: code repository, review, and CI systems
Worked in the IP product development unit on Ericsson's common routing software for edge routers (Smartedge, SSR). Key member of the Agile Scrum pilot team in San Jose. Later became lead module owner for the RIB (Routing Information Base) component and technical lead for the team.
Lead Module Owner – RIB
- Maintained software quality through code and design reviews
- Supported engineers in troubleshooting to improve bug resolution time
Technical Lead / Operational Product Owner
- Broke down features into User Stories, provided high-level design
- Served as Scrum Master; trained teams on writing User Stories
CI & Development Infrastructure
- Created integrated code review and verification workflow using Gerrit and Jenkins
- Responsible engineer for CI operations for 7 months
Engineering
- Implemented L2, L3 and infrastructure features in routing software (C)
- Provided on-site support to internal customers with very positive feedback
Skills & Proficiency
Strong
- Distributed systems design
- Network architecture (DC & cloud)
- Go, Python, Bash, Ansible
- GCP cloud infrastructure & networking
- Kubernetes & containerization
- Technical leadership & mentoring
- CI/CD & release engineering
- Security architecture (VPC-SC, FedRAMP, threat modeling)
- Systems programming in C (Linux networking applications)
Moderate
- Azure (ExpressRoute, VNets)
- VMware / vSphere stack
- Agile / Scrum facilitation
- ISO-aligned software process design
- AI/ML tooling (Claude API, RAG, vector databases)
Gaps
- AWS (cloud concepts transfer; tooling is new)
- Frontend / UI development
- Mobile or embedded systems
- Data science / ML (actively building AI/ML infrastructure skills)
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