Brandon Peskin, Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States
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Brandon Peskin

Verified Expert  in Engineering

DevOps Architect and Software Developer

Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
September 24, 2020

Brandon is an experienced professional who has worked as a systems administrator and network engineer/architect. He has a strong passion for developing, implementing, and supporting the technologies used both yesterday and today to get the job done. Brandon has solid experience working with major vendors such as Fortinet, Cisco Ubiquiti, and Palo Alto Networks.

FirewallsSonicWallFortinet Firewall ConfigurationApache CassandraPerlMySQLHadoopCassandraDevOpsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)TerraformDockerKubernetesGo

Portfolio

Self-employed
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cisco, Cassandra...
Self-employed
IPv6, IPv4, TCP/IP, SonicWall, Fortinet Firewall Configuration, Juniper, Cisco...

Experience

Data Centers - 20 yearsCisco - 20 yearsNetworking - 20 yearsSonicWall - 20 yearsFirewalls - 20 yearsNetwork Access Control - 20 yearsFortinet Firewall Configuration - 10 yearsPalo Alto Networks - 7 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), TCP/IP, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Cisco, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, Direct Connect (DC), Interconnected Networks

The most amazing...

...thing I have ever supported is a multitenant Fortune-500 software as a service platform supporting 5+ billion transactions per day.

Work Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Senior DevOps Engineer

2009 - PRESENT
Self-employed
  • Tasked for many years with keeping a multi-million dollar SaaS product online. This was first via bare metal servers, and in recent years via AWS and GCP. Finally, supporting and migrating these applications in the current era to Kubernetes.
  • Implemented change management procedures, alerting tiers, incident management, and synthetic external tests to ensure the SaaS product remains online and operating within specifications.
  • Supported engineering efforts to break down monolithic repos/services into microservices.
  • Designed corporate and data center network footprints from architecture to implementation, support, and monitoring.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cisco, Cassandra, Kubernetes, CentOS, NGINX

Network Architect

1999 - PRESENT
Self-employed
  • Designed and implemented large scale networks for both corporate and data center. Shared my knowledge on IPv4, and IPv6 and connecting large cloud providers directly to the data center for migratory or scaling purposes.
  • Managed scaling, procurement, and vendor relationships for networking equipment.
  • Worked with security teams to define network perimeter (firewall and intrusion detection) threat and security models.
  • Worked with major vendors (Fortinet, Cisco Ubiquiti, and Palo Alto Networks) with both their hardware offerings and some via the cloud (Prisma at Palo Alto and Meraki). Shared my knowledge on hardware appliance offerings, cloud, and open source implementations.
Technologies: IPv6, IPv4, TCP/IP, SonicWall, Fortinet Firewall Configuration, Juniper, Cisco, CentOS, Networking, Network Engineering, Network Access Control, Firewalls, VPN, Palo Alto Networks, Prisma

Data Center to The Cloud

Led (as the technical lead) a team of SREs responsible for the maintenance of the hardware to support and the release of the company's SaaS product. Established direct connectivity to the cloud provider via Terraform/network infrastructure as code. Established all of the resources needed from the cloud provider via Terraform. Worked with engineering to set up a Spinnaker pipeline to deploy the code via Kubernetes pods which replaced our home-brew Bash script we used for years on bare metal.

Tools

VPN, Amazon EKS, Terraform, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), NGINX, Prisma

Storage

Data Centers, MySQL, Cassandra

Other

Cisco, TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, Data Center Migration, Capacity Planning, Servers, Direct Connect (DC), Interconnected Networks, Networking, Network Engineering, Network Access Control, Firewalls, Apache Cassandra, Juniper, Fortinet Firewall Configuration, SonicWall, Purchasing, Website Performance, Palo Alto Networks

Languages

Bash Script, Perl, Go

Frameworks

Hadoop

Paradigms

DevOps

Platforms

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CentOS, Azure