About

This is a blog about enterprise networking — written by someone who does it for a living. My name is Michael. I'm a network engineer working in healthcare infrastructure. My focus is on routing and switching, BGP, overlay networks, and the kind of operational troubleshooting that only comes from time spent in the trenches.

Most posts here come directly from the lab or the job: a protocol behavior that surprised me, a design decision I had to think through, a configuration that took longer than it should have.

What I Do

On any given day I might be replacing old hardware, tuning EIGRP, standing up a VXLAN/EVPN fabric, writing an Ansible playbook to automate a provisioning task, or digging into a firewall policy. I've delivered data center migrations and core infrastructure replacements. I work directly with customers and vendors to track problems down to root cause rather than symptoms.

What You'll Find Here

The content skews toward routing protocols, overlay networking (VXLAN/EVPN), and infrastructure design with occasional detours into automation, firewalls, and cloud connectivity. Some posts are polished write-ups, others are rougher lab notes. All of it reflects real experience rather than documentation rewrites.