Builder of companies and teams. Early employee for 6 successful startups. I thrive in diverse roles including team growth and leadership, product management, sales, customer success, and network architecture.Company culture matters and must be constantly fostered. Team leadership means enabling, mentoring, teaching, communicating, and supporting, then getting out of the way. Hire the right person, not necessarily the right skillset, and help them thrive and become leaders themselves. Encourage diversity in people and views.Dual US and UK citizenship.Buzzword bingo for recruiters of tech and protocols I’ve at one time been good at:• Network automation: • CI workflows, git, Ansible, python, SoT (Infrahub, netbox, nautobot), intent / assurance• Intent, Monitoring and Observability: • Streaming telemetry, netflow, batfish, SuzieQ, Forward Networks, IP Fabric• Large-scale IP/MPLS network architecture, design, planning & technologies: • IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, RSVP-TE, Segment Routing• Data center networking: EVPN, VxLAN, AI and HPC • NVIDIA A100 GPUs for AI/ML, Infiniband, DDN Storage • Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat): Systems administration, automation, and virtualisation• Network security (Firewalls, VPNs) & Load Balancing