Jorge
Arredondo

I'm Jorge Arredondo. I love to see how technology, whether is a simple transatlantic Video-Chat with your partner, thinking about Electric Self-Driving Cars or just a simple micro piece of hardware inserted into your body, can make us tremendously productive. It is the Mystery of where and how the technology is guiding us that Indeed Fascinates Me!.

Besides fascination, I have an odd attachment to learn and share my knowledge within the ecosystem I belong to, "helping others" can even be my favorite social tool to break the ice among the TeamWork I have around. I think the Internet helped us little by little to create a flat world since late 1990's till now. I mean, globalize one and only one ecosystem with the same likes, with the same taste, with the same all in one powerful learning source (The World Wide Web). Therefore, I think data is clearly the new oil and has to be treated, absorbed and digested properly.

Well, well... After I described my personal opinion and the love I have towards technology and the importance of Data in a nutshell, I will talk a bit about my Professional Background.

So far I have over 15+ years of overall Networking experience working on Enterprise/Data IP Core and Data Center Technologies of different Industries such as ISP services, Manufacturer services, Health Care services and Banking Finances services. I could say that improving my personal leadership, constant IT development & pushing myself to rotate in different Industries, has been the most powerful troubleshooting life toolkit I've ever applied in my career. Is interesting to see and understand how different business and Industries align their IT department and Networking needs based on their specific dependencies and necessities. In the end, IT (Data IP) is going to be the backbone in any Industry Business Model. I want to clarify that working in one Industry forever can also be such an amazing experience getting an exceptional learning curve. Perspectives may differ I guess.

Gracefully changing the Subject to talk about Networking, the truth is that lately the Software Defined Networking solutions, the high demanding of a healthy L2/L3 loop-free underlay and amazing Networking transport Overlays trends out there just turned me crazy! In a good way. I mean, I have been falling in love with the "new" decoupled Control Plane, Northbound, Southbound, East, West stuff and the coolest flexibility with the application layer (Software) making the Networking behave quite unimaginable and scalable adding cool features such as Analytics, flexibility, less complexity, Automation for the Operation and Day by Day Work! etc good and new NetOps approach in general!. I think SDN, SDDC for enterprises, NFV for Service Providers, Network Automation, Network Programability, Public-Private Cloud flexibility, Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning, etc, will be the main key differentiator for any service Industry in the upcoming decade and believe it or not, as an IT Engineer, you are going to find joy operating, implementing, configuring, designing, deploying and programming all that new things (just Pythonize it)!.

Speaking about my professional background, I have been putting quite some time gathering valuable info experience to set up properly my own metrics and my professional KPIs. I fragmented down below and summarized my top 6 IT KPIs measured since the experience I got in early 2006 until the current year 2022. FYI, my highest 98% comes from my justified CCIE Routing Switching on Enterprise and Data Center Architectures, my 15+years of experience moving all the way down to centralized Control Plane SDx SDDC design, Multicloud, DevOps NetOps Python experience, ITIL, ITSM Frameworks and other Interesting IT KPIs I absorbed on the way...