Geoffrey WolfAB3LS

Geoffrey Wolf

Network Architect

Hi there! I'm Geoffrey. Nice to meet you.

I am an enterprise network architect based in Mechanicsburg, PA. I currently work as a Senior Network Engineer for Digitech Computer LLC, a Sarnova company.

I have been a data network engineer for over 11 years. I am a University of Pittsburgh alumnus, class of 2015, where I earned my Bachelor of Science in Information Science.

I also hold an Extra Class Amateur Radio license issued by the FCC and operate on the air with my callsign AB3LS.

11+ years of real world enterprise data networking expertise University of Pittsburgh ’15 · BS Information Science Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator FCC · AB3LS
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Skillset Strengths

A short summary of some of my skillset strengths.

Firewalls & Security

  • Fortinet 4+ years
    • FortiGate
    • FortiManager + FortiAnalyzer
  • Cisco ASA 6+ years
  • Cisco Secure Firewall / FirePOWER / FTD / SourceFire
    • Experience operating platform since 2016
  • Palo Alto PA-series NGFW (PAN-OS) 2+ years
  • Open-source: pfSense, VyOS
  • Ubiquiti UniFi 15+ years
    • Network: WAPs, switches, routers (Cloud Gateways)
    • Protect: IP camera surveillance

Routing & Switching

  • Cisco Catalyst / Nexus 11+ years
  • HPE Juniper EVPN-VXLAN JunOS QFX/EX Mist campus fabric 3+ years
  • Cisco ISR/ASR IOS-XE routing & switching OS 11+ years
  • Very knowledgeable in BGP, OSPF, STP, 802.1Q, LACP, multi-VRF
  • Many dual-homed eBGP DIA circuits provisioned with carriers and managing ARIN AS Orgs

SD-WAN & WAN

  • Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) 4+ years
  • FortiGate SD-WAN 2+ years
  • DMVPN / Cisco FlexVPN 11+ years
  • MPLS
  • Policy-based or Route-base IPSEC VPNs 11+ years
  • AT&T AVPN
  • DIA 11+ years
  • Platform/vendor agnostic

Cloud & Interconnect 11+ years

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) multi-region, multi-tenant Transit Gateway deployments with VPC peering and region-to-region transit gateway links; Direct Connect (DX) or Internet IPsec VPN connectivity to on-prem
  • Microsoft Azure multi-region, multi-purpose deployments of connectivity and compute
  • Virtual Network Appliance (VNA) deployments
    • ASAv, FG-VM, FTDv, CSR1000v
    • Multi-vendor support
    • High availability configurations
    • WAN optimization
  • Megaport and Equinix Cloud Exchange SDNs
    • Virtual circuits on-demand
    • Datacenter interconnect
    • Public cloud (AWS DX, Azure ExpressRoute)
    • Dedicated Internet access
    • Bandwidth on-demand
    • Ports on-demand globally
    • Optional Internet Exchange (IX) connectivity and BGP peering sessions

Automation & Observability

  • AI-assisted Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) systems orchestration
    • Emphasis on idempotent, fault-tolerant, rapid deployment of tooling, and security hardening of code and configurations
    • Tool familiarity: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw Agent
  • Self-hosted agentic AI and LLM experimentation
    • Ollama
    • vLLM
    • Llama.cpp
  • Open source agentic AI accellerated network security testing
    • OpenMythos

Toolset Exposure

  • Monitoring
    • PRTG
    • LibreNMS (personal favorite)
    • Zabbix
    • SolarWinds
    • Uptime Kuma
  • DCIM / IPAM
    • NetBox
    • Infoblox
  • Docker [Compose]
  • Terraform / Ansible
  • Git version control
  • Virtualization & Containerization
    • Docker CE
    • KVM Virtual Machines
    • LXC Containers
    • VMware
    • Proxmox
    • XCP-ng
    • Hyper-V
    • TrueNAS