Network Security Architect with 6+ years building and operating secure network architectures across on-prem and multi-cloud.
Specializes in connecting enterprise networking with Cloudflare at scale - leading domain migrations, security hardening, and Zero Trust rollouts with minimal downtime.
Develops automation and internal tooling to enforce standards, accelerate delivery, and convert platform telemetry into repeatable runbooks with clean rollback paths.
Professional skills
Cloudflare Platform
DNS / CDN cache strategy
Rulesets (acct/zone)
WAF/Bot/API Shield tuning
Zero Trust (Access/GW/WARP)
API Shield (mTLS/schema)
Workers
Automation & Tools
Terraform / cf-terraforming
Python (API/GraphQL)
Jinja2 -> HTML/Excel
GitOps change control
Report/alarms automation
Origin & Edge Engineering
nginx hardening
Cache keys/headers
keepalive/timeouts
real_ip / proxy chain
mTLS / Origin CA
Transform rules
Network Security
NGFW (Fortinet/Palo/Cisco)
SSL inspection
SD-WAN
Segmentation (VLAN/ACL)
Site-to-site & RA VPN
Multi-Cloud Networking
AWS / Azure / GCP
Transit/GWLB patterns
Hybrid connectivity
Landing zones
Routing/BGP
Operations & Governance
MoPs & change windows
Incident mgmt
Runbooks & baselines
Monitoring & reports
Postmortems -> standards
About
I'm driven by curiosity and progress - whether that's learning, creating, or improving something around me. I enjoy family time, practical DIY-style projects, and occasional travel/outdoor breaks to recharge. People describe me as reliable, direct, and easy to work with.
Connectivity: Delivered SD-WAN segmentation and site-to-site/remote-access VPN operations.
Greenyard
Lead Network Engineer
06/2021 - 05/2022
Owned end-to-end enterprise network and security operations: architecture decisions, firewall governance, and day-to-day reliability across a mixed-vendor environment.
Network ownership: Led standards, architecture decisions, and escalations for high-impact changes.