About

I’m Dmitry - a principal network automation engineer. Dual CCIE, 15 years building and automating networks. Currently going deep on AI infrastructure fabrics.

Born in Moscow in 1988, before the internet and the feed. I’ve spent my career on large-scale networks - enterprise, streaming, multi-vendor - and now on the automation layer above them. At SiriusXM I built an internal automation and observability platform - self-service workflows, live dashboards, AI-assisted triage - running serverless on AWS.

I measure automation by what it actually saves: time, money, and risk. The harder question isn’t “can we automate this?” - it’s “should we, and what breaks if we do?”.

This site is where I document what I’m learning about the networks behind AI — EVPN/VXLAN, RDMA, lossless Ethernet, GPU topologies. I also write about the other side of the ledger - what this technology costs us that doesn’t show up in dollars.

If you’re working on something similar, or you run a process that eats hours every week and you’re wondering whether it’s worth automating, tell me about it. Or find me on LinkedIn.