Federico Tabbò Curriculum Vitae

Tech stack

  • 10 years of Cisco networking experience
  • Cisco ACI and Call Manager
  • 🐧 Linux
  • 🐍 Python
  • F5 LTM and GTM
  • Django
  • Bootstrap and jquery, learning Vue.js
  • Docker, containerisation
  • Learning Kubernetes (already deployed two prod apps on it!)
  • I know how x509 certificates work

What I'm looking for

A no-nonsense tech environment where I can apply infra-as-code principles.

Possibly with an already established team

Working from a Linux laptop is definitely a plus

If you think being a network engineer only requires Putty.exe or that I can do my job through Citrix, move along

Work

  • Network Automation Engineer Network To Code
    2024-now

    Managed Services Network Automation Engineer

    • Customer and SaaS support
  • Technology Innovation Associate Principal @ Accenture
    2023-2024

    Network Design Team @ Intesa San Paolo

    • Principal Engineer for the Load Balancing area with F5 BIG-IP solutions. Wrote a Django app to manage LTM and GTM service orchestration via AS3 and iControl.
  • Senior Implementation Engineer @ NTT Ltd
    2022-2023

    Member of the DC Design team @ Vodafone

  • Implementation Engineer @ NTT Ltd
    2018-2022

    Network engineer on campus, DC and Service Provider technologies

    Main projects and customers:

    • SNAM: DC migration from classical Nexus to Cisco ACI. Wrote Python script to parse layer-2 Nexus configurations and re-create relevant port bindings on ACI
    • Gruppo Veronesi: Followed several LAN refurbishments and new site activations, taking part in defining policies for the entire network
    • Gruppo Veronesi: LAN Segmentation and config cleanup. In charge of a small team, we analyzed and fixed configurations of over 500 network devices to bring them up to policy. In total, 20000 ports were analysed and attached clients, still mostly in VLAN 1, were migrated to their correct VLAN to improve security through segmentation. Topology discovery and config parsing and changes were done through my library Netwalk combined with NetBox and a Jenkins pipeline
    • Esselunga: Web middleware built on Django with Bootstrap frontend to simplify day-by-day operations on Cisco ACI

    Internal projects: Meta Monitor, StageIT

  • Network and Collaboration Engineer @ Lutech
    2013-2018

    My first role, starting as an intern and progressing to Engineer on Cisco network and collaboration technologies.

    Main projects and customers:

    • Fincantieri: LAN refurbishment for two shipyards. Took part as junior member of a team, changing switches on the field and investigating issues.
    • Miroglio: Phone system migration from traditional POTS lines to Cisco Call Manager. Through the years I've gone from following shop activations and migrations to taking charge of the migration of all of the offices and productive plants, making design choices, becoming the reference point for the customer
  • Random stuff on my server @ Home
    2010-2013

    Stuff I've played with in no particular order: debian iptables php syslog apache2 squid cron ossec mysql phpmyadmin webmin postfix dovecot openvpn quagga samba lxc zfs netatalk avahi

Certifications

  • F5 Certified Administrator
    Coming soon
  • CCNP DevNet
    2024
  • CCNP Data Center
    2022
  • Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center ACI Implementation
    2021
  • Oracle Communications Session Border Controller 7 Basic Certified Implementation Specialist
    2020
  • CCNP Routing and Switching (now Enterprise)
    2019
  • CCNA Voice
    2013
  • CCNA R&S
    2013