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Chris Woodfield

NetMaven

Professional Summary

Chris a 25-plus-year industry veteran, having served in architecture, engineering, and software development roles at Twitter, Salesforce.com, i3d.net, Drivenets, and other companies. In addition, he has been involved in the shaping of the Internet and Internet policy for many years as a regular volunteer for NANOG, ARIN and regional exchanges.

Specialty

IPv6 Planning, Deployments and Operations

Additional Expertise

Network Automation

Setup of Virtual Network Labs

Network Architecture and Reliability

Notable Achievements

Led the implementation of internal IPv6 capabilities at Twitter

Led the redesign of Twitter's data centers from a legacy configuration to a Clos fabric. This involved migrating the internal routing protocol from OSPF to BGP and developing automation for turnkey deployments of additional capacity.

Developed and maintained the service location system at Salesforce, allowing for routing/migrating Kubernetes workloads to hosts via BGP routing.

Highlighted Work Experience

Twitter - Senior Staff Network Engineer

Salesforce.com - Principal Network Engineer

Yahoo - Sr. Network Engineer

INAP (f/k/a Internap Corp) - Senior Backbone Engineer

DIGEX/Intermedia Communications, Inc. - NOC Technician

Education

B.S. Communications, Towson University, 1995

Volunteer Work

NANOG: Member of Program Committee (with term limit timeouts) since 2016; Chair/co-chair of Hackathon Committee/Subcommittee since 2017.

ARIN: Member of Advisory Council 2017-2021, 2022-present

Seattle Internet Exchange: administrator, technical advisor.

Seattle Community Network - technical advisor

Hobbies and Interests

Live music and production

Politics and social activism

Graphic art/design (his pre-Internet career)

Solutions

Streamline Sales

Generate More Leads

Build Your Brand

Impress Existing Customers

AutomButtonate Tasks

CRM Features