Chris Kane

Director, System Engineering @ Arista Networks

About

Having grown up on Operations I have a great appreciation for proper integration and support. I moved on to Implementation and Engineering and obtained my CCIE in Feb of 2005. I've been fortunate enough to play on networks for Fortune 100 companies as well as organizations in the small business space. I have built or supported networks with Arista, Ansible, WAN Optimization, Firewalls, VPNs and networks that use EVPN VXLAN, VXLAN, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP. And I've spent my fair share of time with all manners of physical layer connectivity. Specialties: Technical Book Reviews including editing for flow and technical accuracies. Rolling out new technology. Integration for mergers and acquisitions. Stabilizing poor performing data networks. Care and feeding of the data network as an ecosystem. Assisting with developing plans for level-up journeys = Crawl, Walk, Run

Country

united states

City

columbus

Industry

internet

Skill

data center, networking, cisco technologies, ospf, switches, network security, security, firewalls, cisco ios, bgp, wan, network architecture, integration, eigrp, network engineering, lan wan, vpn, troubleshooting, network design, routers, routing, cisco nexus, open shortest path first, cisco systems products, border gateway protocol, virtual private network, wide area network, arista, data center migrations

Experience

one of the founding members of nug - ohio networking user group

nug

2017-2 - Present · 9 yrs 8 mos

one of the founding members of nug

senior network engineer

bluemile networks

2010-3 - 2011-1 · 11 mos

senior network engineer

cardinal health

2009-3 - 2010-3 · 1 yr 1 mo

senior network engineer

jpmorgan chase & co.

2002-9 - 2006-12 · 4 yrs 4 mos

data network

uunet

1997-9 - 2002-9 · 5 yrs 1 mo

communications technician

ameritech

1996-5 - 1997-9 · 1 yr 5 mos

radioman

us navy

1992-5 - 1996-5 · 4 yrs 1 mo

data center engineer

netech corporation

2011-2 - 2015-3 · 4 yrs 2 mos

senior network engineer

dsw

2006-12 - 2009-3 · 2 yrs 4 mos

system engineer at arista networks

arista networks

2015-3 - Present · 11 yrs 7 mos

Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments. Arista's award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 100 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than five million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50GbE consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.Additional information and resources can be found at: www.arista.comwww.twitter.com/aristanetworkswww.facebook.com/AristaNWwww.youtube.com/user/AristaNetworks