Brent Van Dussen

VP Advanced Platform Engineering

Megaport

Jul 2022 - Current (4 years 2 months)

Head of Network Engineering

Megaport

Nov 2019 - Oct 2022 (3 years)

Responsible for all optical, core, edge and compute network platform selection, validation/test, documentation and handover to automation, deployment and operational support teams. Keep internal product roadmap aligned as hardware and features get rolled out to the network.

Principal Engineer

Megaport

Feb 2015 - Nov 2019 (4 years 10 months)

Design, build, and maintenance of Megaport's quickly growing global backbone. Build open source engineering ipsec vpn for secure remote access to operational management network. Publish initial network design specifications covering optical, core, edge and compute builds for all standard growth scenarios. Hardware/OS/Virtualization/VM selection, test, document, handover for new virtual routing platform product. Onboard new vendor kit and ensure interop with existing network and services prior to handover to automation and deployment teams.

Senior Service Engineer

Microsoft

Dec 2012 - Jan 2015 (2 years 2 months)

Focus on network design documentation, primarily geared towards adding hierarchy to the network and streamlining protocol overhead. Also worked on network flow distribution and analysis system using elasticsearch backend for near real time analysis possibilities.

Senior Network Architect

Limelight Networks

Jun 2007 - Dec 2012 (5 years 7 months)

Responsible for design, documentation, deployment and ongoing support of next gen global load balancing architecture. Chief systems architect for internally developed sflow analysis toolset. Work with network hardware vendor support and engineering teams to drive new features into the platform and help scale mpls/qos/multicast/ipv6 offerings.

Senior Systems Manager

Att

Oct 1998 - Jun 2007 (8 years 9 months)

Interface with Labs to ensure testing encompassed all requirements from hosting and cdn platforms. Develop and maintain tools outside of the typical monitoring suite to aide in network fault analysis and isolation. Network consultant for large enterprise customer infrastructure outside of the usual hosting offerings. Top tier escalation point for the most demanding customers/problems that require a multidisciplinary approach to isolating system failures down to the individual switch/router/load-balancer/firewall/server level, engaging individual subject matter experts as necessary.

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