Daniel Teycheney

I enjoy designing and building solutions, automating processes and working on team projects which make a real difference to a customers IT experience. Put simply, I like to leave all teams, organisations and environments in a better position than when I found them.

Skills

Network Automation

Advanced

Nornir
NAPALM
Scrapli
Netmiko
jmespath
Pandas
Jinja2
Ansible
Data modelling

Consulting

Advanced

Migration Strategies
Architecture and Roadmaps
High Level Designs / Detailed Designs
Network Assessments / Network Remediation

Programming

Intermediate

Python
Terraform
FastAPI
Pulumi
JSON
YAML

GitOps

Intermediate

Bitbucket
Bitbucket Pipelines
TravisCI
Azure DevOps
Github
Github Actions
Infrastructure as Code

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Intermediate

VPCs
Transit Gateways
NAT Gateways
Subnets
Route Tables
Security Groups
EKS
ECR
EC2
Lambda
IAM

Microsoft Azure

Intermediate

Load Balancing
VNETs
Network Security Groups

Networking

Advanced

BGP
OSPF
EIGRP
VRF Route Leaking
vPC
VXLAN
FabricPath
STP
Load Balancing
WAN Optimisation
Wireless
Next-Generation Firewalls
Vulnerability Scanning
Virtual Private Networks

Work Experience (12)

Jul 2024 - Current

Cloud Network Engineer

Atlassian

https://www.atlassian.com/

Working as part of the Edge Services team which are responsible for building and operating a secure, scalable, and reliable public Edge layer that terminates public client connections, applies business-wide compliance and security measures, and load-balance traffic internally

Jun 2022 - Jul 2024

Senior Automation Engineer

Dragonfly Technologies

https://www.dragonflytechnologies.com/

Working as part of the development team, supporting an internally developed microservices platform by performing a variety of tasks

Rebuilt AWS environment using Pulumi and Python via Github Actions
Migration of approx 35 repositories from Bitbucket to Github
Created pipelines that automate build of microservice containers into AWS ECR and automate the release notes into Github
Created pipelines that deploy Kubernetes manifests into AWS EKS using Kustomize
Remediated and optimised automated Python test pipelines for each release, reducing pipeline runs from 45 minutes down to 3 minutes
Implemented and automated code quality standards across all Python-based repositories
Integrated automated Github actions pipeline notifications via Slack
Developed reusable automation solutions in Python, which are used across various customers

Aug 2020 - Jun 2022

Network Automation Engineer

Transurban

https://www.transurban.com/

Defining, leading and implementing network automation solutions for the corporate and roadside network teams, using a Python-centric approach.

Development of network automation roadmap to progress network automation efforts within the organisation
Lead developer for network automation architectural and design decisions
Establishment of Source of Truth solution to identify and mass remediate inventory data inside ServiceNow
Development of daily automated backup solution, including secret masking (approx 1050 devices)
Development of automated compliance solutions (approx 24,000 checks over 1400 devices)
Development of standards for code development, installation instructions to ensure code portability and ease of use across various platforms
Code refactor of all existing code projects to ensure that projects are consistent and follow best practices, such as adherence to style guides and readability
Mentoring of other staff on improving programming skills, including running internal sessions on topics such as FastAPI, nornir and code quality practices

Dec 2019 - Jun 2020

Cloud Engineer (Contract)

Australian Super

https://www.australiansuper.com/

Assisting the cloud team in maturing the cloud offering, with a focus on networking automation within the multi-region cloud environment.

Development of Ansible playbooks for Checkpoint firewall rule automation
Mentoring of other staff on improving network automation skills, including running internal sessions on topics such as Ansible
Deployment of internal Terraform module for Checkpoint high availability (HA) deployments in Azure
Remediating Azure DevOps pipelines to ensure that builds are consistently deployed across regions

Jul 2019 - Nov 2019

Managing Consultant

Basis Networks

https://cybercx.com.au/about-cybercx/basis/

Implemented a network automation strategy for company wide code projects, with Python being the primary programming language

Consolidation of disparate code locations into a central code repository (Bitbucket)
Code refactor of all existing code projects to ensure that projects are consistent and follow best practices, such as adherence to style guides and readability
Development of standards for code development, installation instructions to ensure code portability and ease of use across various platforms
Mentoring of other staff on improving programming skills, including running internal sessions on topics such as Ansible

Feb 2016 - Jun 2019

Senior Consultant

Basis Networks

https://cybercx.com.au/about-cybercx/basis/

Lead a number of large scale network and security projects for large Australian enterprise businesses, using automation

Designed and implemented a decoupling of management networks from the production network on behalf of Australia’s largest postal service, to mitigate a significant business risk of loss of management access during a critical network outage at either of their data centres.
Performed a second data centre relocation and consolidation for a subsidiary on behalf of Australia’s largest postal service, in order to retire legacy infrastructure and recoup significant data centre hosting savings for the business.
Performed a firewall rule remediation for a large inbound information management service company, removing several thousand rules over seven high availability firewall pairs.
Performed a data centre relocation and consolidation for a subsidiary on behalf of Australia’s largest postal service, in order to retire legacy infrastructure and recoup significant data centre savings for the business.
Developed a Python application to provide a configuration backup tool for Basis Networks’ managed service offering to diversify the company’s offerings.

Jun 2015 - Jan 2016

Technical Consultant

Telstra Corporation

https://www.telstra.com.au/

As part of a team of four consultants, designed and built two new data centre networks for a large gambling company.

Designing and implementation for one of Australia’s first Cisco ACI implementations
Designing a multi VRF routing solution for new network
Develop change plans and cutovers to the new network

Jun 2014 - May 2015

Technical Consultant

O2 Networks

Lead a WAN migration for over eighty sites across Australia for a large health organisation from one WAN service provider to another.

Liaised with various stakeholders involved in WAN migration activities
Designed and compiled network changes for implementation at all sites
Develop test cases and test plans to ensure successful WAN migrations
Developed standard change procedures and plans for migrations
Organising network resourcing and schedule for all migrations

Nov 2012 - May 2014

Network Engineer

Treasury Wine Estates

https://www.tweglobal.com/

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) is one of the world’s largest wine companies, with a global winemaking and distribution business operating in multiple countries.

Worked in a global network services team which is responsible for over ninety sites globally, primary lead for the Australia and Asia Pacific, approximately 60 sites
Involved in gathering network requirements, interpreting into network designs, implementations (onsite and remote) and support/BAU
Designing, configuring and implementing site integrations into TWE internal network
Developing standards for monitoring, routing and switching practices globally
Installing, configuring and management of Cisco routing, switching, wireless, WAN optimisation and firewalls
Operational changes and management of Nexus switching, F5 load balancing, McAfee Web Gateways

Jun 2012 - Oct 2012

Traveller

Travelling

Travelling through Europe on a career break.

Nov 2010 - May 2012

Network Engineer

ISN Solutions Ltd

https://www.isnsolutions.co.uk/

Part of the network team performing network services for ISN Solutions' managed service customers.

Installing, configuring and management of Cisco routers, switches, firewalls and wireless access points
Installing, configuring and management of Cisco Unified Call Manager Express (CME) and Cisco Unified Communications Small Business Systems (UC540 and UC 560 series)
Installing, configuring and management of Riverbed Steelhead WAN optimisers
Installing, configuring and management of Websense Web Security software
Co-ordinated and relocated customers from onsite services to hosting centre migrations
Configuration and management of Checkpoint UTM and open server firewalls
Coordinating and liaising with third party vendors such as Internet Service Providers to install, configure and troubleshoot components of customer networks.
Mentoring and training new network engineers as part of team expansion
Remote monitoring, reporting and management of networking suite using N-Central monitoring system
Configuring and implementing complete network solution for deployment on oil rig

May 2008 - Oct 2010

Network Engineer

Deakin University

https://www.deakin.edu.au

Principal contact for all onsite Networking faults, service requests and queries at Deakin University, Waurn Ponds campus and ensuring their completion in line with Service Level Agreements

Installing, configuring and load testing UPS Devices
Installing, troubleshooting and configuration of Tandberg Video Conferencing systems
Installing, configuring and replacing Cisco switches, wireless access points and routers for the University network as per customer requirements
Complete requests for configuration of Cisco IP Phones and IP Voice Points using Cisco Call Manager 4.3 and 7
Coordinate and organise Change Records and Outage Notifications to alert customers of IT Service disruptions in line with ITIL best-practice.
Coordinate with Systems Administrators to complete all networking requests for servers in the Universities data centre
Liaise with Facilities Management for design, fit-out and installation of network services into new and refurbished building projects
Coordinate contractors to complete data outlet cabling, system tails for switches and server hosts
Complete cabling requests for fax lines, auto-diallers and EFTPOS lines by cabling from MDF to end-customer locations

Projects (2)

motherstarter

Nov 2020 - Current

https://github.com/writememe/motherstarter

A network data transformation tool to accelerate the adoption of network automation by providing a command-line interface to convert input file sources to various network automation output formats.