Silvano Da Ros

Experience

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  Cisco

  Jun 2000 - Jun 2003

  Systems Engineer
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  Softcom Inc.

  Jun 2003 - Jun 2006

  Network Engineer
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  HP Enterprise Services

  Jan 2007 - Jul 2016

  Architecture & Design Engineering Lead

  • Authored HPES’ library of F5 Engineering and Operations run-books, configuration guides and templates, including TMOS upgrade guides, peer review guidelines, common troubleshooting scenarios, SSL cert renewal procedures, VIP/WideIP deployment and migration procedural guides.• Developed Engineering workflow and ADC automation tools using PHP, Perl & Python used by engineering teams.• Trained Level 1 through 4 Operations & Engineering teams on ADC technologies, troubleshooting and management.• Peer reviewed majority of ADC configuration work orders for the engineering teams of 30+ engineers.• Provided Level 4 troubleshooting support for Sev 1 and Sev 2 incidents with expert level tcpdump/Wireshark analysis.• Lead large-scale VIP and WideIP migrations (2000+ VIPs/WideIPs).• Configure APM for SAML authentication as both an SP and an iDP, for numerous clients, such as Marathon Oil, Flemish Government and, Government of Manitoba. • Configured APM for Kerberos, Active Directory, and Radius authentication for numerous application deployments such as, generic web applications, SSL-VPN, and Microsoft Exchange.• Configured security policies using ASM. Worked with clients during test/learning phase to adjust policies based on application behavior, prior to moving to production/blocking mode.• Deployed 100s of new LTM pairs, developed complex iRules and configured 1000s of VIPs for local load balancing for multiple clients• Deployed numerous GTM sync groups and configured WideIPs for site-to-site availability for multiple clients Show less

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  Independant

  Aug 2016 - Aug 2017

  F5 Consultant

  -- Responsible for end-to-end F5 ADC solution delivery for accounts globally, including F5 LTM, GTM and ASM, APM and AFM.-- Develop and test complex iRules to meet customer application acceleration requirements.-- Develop automation tools to satisfy clients application deployment, operations, and life cycle management requirements, using industry standard Ansible, Puppet tools, the F5 iWorkflow platform and PHP, Perl and Python languages.

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  JustADC Corporation

  Jan 2017 - now

  F5 Architect

  -- Responsible for global F5 BIG-IP Architecture and design.-- Engineer large-scale BIG-IP migrations and deployments for LTM, GTM, APM and ASM, on-premise and within Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure.-- Optimize application using BIG-IP LTM & GTM, including Microsoft Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint, VMWare Horizon View, Citrix Xenapp and XenServer.-- Secure applications by Mitigating OWASP top 10 attacks using BIG-IP ASM.-- Enhance and obfuscate Authentication with BIP-IP APM using Single-Sign-On (SSO), multifactor authentication, web application portals. -- Integrate BIG-IP into applications using iRules, iRulesLX, iControl REST and SOAP.-- Replace popular Security Server gateways, including VMware HorizonView and Citrix Unified Gateway with BIG-IP APM. Show less