About Dave
Engineer. Builder. Tinkerer of Things. Chronic overthinker. Lifelong learner, and Dad.
Background
I’ve spent my career inside the shifting landscape of modern computing and some if its touchstone events. I was around for the crowning years of the Ethernet Wars, the Dot‑Com Boom, the Y2K panic, the rise of campus networking, the birth of the data center, and the shift to today’s spine‑leaf world. I’ve watched AI, LLMs, and automation move from emerging ideas to everyday operational tools. Through all of it, I’ve been building, supporting, and rethinking the systems that keep people connected in one way or another to it all.
Now we’re in an era of automated networks, DevOps and NetOps workflows, agentic systems, and a pace of change that never really slows down. Like a lot of engineers, I’m retooling — updating my skills, re‑examining old assumptions, and rebuilding the way I approach the work I’ve done for years.
This space is where I document that journey. The experiments, the lessons, the missteps, and the breakthroughs. If you’re on a similar path — learning, adapting, trying to stay ahead of the curve — I hope you’ll find something here that resonates, and I hope you’ll share your own experiences with me.
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