// Network Architect · Portsmouth, NH
Carol Gardner
builds networks
that stay up.
15 years of hands-on network engineering. I design and operate mission-critical infrastructure — DMVPN, BGP, IPSec, ZBF, multicast — with a focus on reliability, security, and getting things right the first time.
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// 01 · Expertise
What I work with
Routing & WAN
Security
Platforms
Monitoring & Ops
Automation
Multicast & QoS
// 02 · Experience
Where I've been
Network Architect
Design and operate mission-critical emergency interoperability network infrastructure for public safety and FEMA-connected systems.
- Architected multi-datacenter DMVPN hub topology (BOS / WLM / RIN) on Cisco C8000V
- Designed and implemented comprehensive Zone-Based Firewall policies across all sites
- Led PKI/certificate infrastructure for IPSec VPN authentication across hundreds of tunnels
- Built observability stack: LibreNMS, Nagios XI, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Wazuh on AWS
- Developed Ansible-based configuration management for network device fleet
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// 03 · Open Source
Things I've built & shared
Network Management Scripts
Automation and management utilities for Cisco IOS-XE environments. DMVPN, BGP, certificate lifecycle, and more.
Python / Ansible
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Bash / IOS-XE
// 04 · Contact
Let's talk
I'm a Network Architect with 15 years of experience designing and troubleshooting complex infrastructure. I'm currently open to hearing about senior network engineering and architecture roles.
If you're building something that needs to stay up, let's have a conversation.