My name is Jared Elliott. I’m a technical engineer and consultant with more than a decade of experience.
I’m currently available for consulting engagements.
Areas of Expertise
Campus and Data Center Networking
Many businesses don’t realize that operations have outgrown their infrastructure until it’s too late. The resulting outages, inadequacies, and frustration can plague an IT department for years. Extensive experience evaluating, designing, and implementing network infrastructure is crucial for large and small businesses to escape the cycle of reactivity.
Infrastructure Automation
Any task which is done manually and can be automated should be automated. In 2024, I built a home-grown and customized automation solution for a global tech company which allows them to provision and manage a fleet of network devices across 13 data centers from a single Github repository.
Content and Application Delivery
If your company is serving billions of requests per day, scalability and redundancy are critical to maintain performance and growth. My expertise with load balancing, internet routing, and data center design is proven for environments with a significant web, cloud, and data center presence.
Network Security
Some of the best security engineers were network engineers once. That’s because we have a deep understanding of attack surfaces at a granular level. My years of experience deploying multi-vendor firewall platforms, VPN solutions, AAA services, and micro-segmentation have led to a deep understanding of the security risks facing businesses, and the best ways to mitigate them.
Server Administration
Many IT departments have dedicated teams for Windows and Linux server administration, and it’s rare to find skill overlap between them. My extensive experience with Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu allows you to invest in one expert instead of two or three.