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Projects

Automation tools, lab environments, AI experiments, and cloud deployments — practical work at the intersection of network engineering and modern infrastructure.

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Web / Astro Active

570 Networks — This Site

Building a public-facing portfolio and knowledge base for network and security architecture. Deployed on Cloudflare Workers with Astro SSR.

AstroCloudflareTypeScript
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Lab / Wireless Active

Campus WLAN Lab

Hands-on lab environment for designing and validating enterprise wireless deployments. Covers AP placement, RF design, roaming, and guest portal configuration using Aruba and Cisco.

ArubaCisco WLCWi-Fi 6ClearPass
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Lab / Security Active

Network Access Control Lab

NAC lab built around 802.1X, MAB, and posture-based policy enforcement. Tests wired and wireless onboarding flows for corporate, BYOD, and IoT device categories.

Cisco ISE802.1XMABRADIUS
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Automation Planned

Network Automation Toolkit

Python-based toolkit for automating common network provisioning tasks — VLAN creation, BGP neighbor checks, and config backups — across multi-vendor environments.

PythonNetmikoNornirAnsible
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Security Planned

Firewall Policy Auditor

Tool to parse and audit firewall rule sets against a defined policy baseline. Flags shadowed rules, overly permissive ACLs, and unused policies.

PythonPalo AltoFortinetAPI
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Lab / Research Planned

SD-WAN Lab — Cisco Viptela

Full-stack SD-WAN lab with vManage, vBond, vSmart, and multiple vEdge routers. Used to validate design patterns and demo capabilities to enterprise customers.

CiscoSD-WANEVE-NGBGP
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AI / ML Planned

AI-Assisted NOC Triage

Integrating LLM-based summarization into a NOC workflow to auto-triage alerts, correlate events, and draft runbooks from incident history.

PythonOpenAIGrafanaPrometheus
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Cloud / Security Planned

Zero Trust Lab on AWS

Reference implementation of a zero trust architecture using AWS VPC, IAM, Zscaler Private Access, and CrowdStrike for endpoint posture assessment.

AWSZscalerCrowdStrikeTerraform

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Most of this work lives in public repositories. Feel free to explore, fork, or open an issue.

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