Alex Buie
Principal Network Engineer at Cytracom
Town of Henrietta, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Buie is a Principal Network Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient, multitenant network and cloud infrastructures across geo-diverse datacenters. He leads technical teams managing OpenStack, legacy VMware, Linux fleets, Fortinet, Mikrotik and Arista BGP networks while serving as the escalation point for carriers and internal stakeholders. Known for translating deep technical detail into clear guidance for mixed-ability audiences, he blends systems orchestration with a people-first approach to match talent and tools to problems. Alex focuses on decentralized, human-centric infrastructure — thinking in mesh patterns that unite knowledge, resources, and resilience. Beyond engineering, he writes fiction imagining cooperation baked into physics and runs projects like onefreecomputer.org and packet.boutique that reflect his commitment to accessible, distributed systems. His uncommon strength is aligning biological and AI agents into orchestration patterns that make individual and collective thriving inevitable.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Network and System Administration/Administrator, DNF, Bachelor of Science - BS, Network and System Administration/Administrator, DNF at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (51)
monitoring10
docker10
postgresql10
mysql10
linux10
mongodb10
database10
dashboard9
observability9
kubernetes9
machine-learning9
graphite9
time-series9
grafana9
statsd9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Cytracom/coredns
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
Netbox Fork - CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins
Contributions:6 releases, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
dnsnetboxchainsdns-servercoredns
PornographyForPosterity/pornographyforposterity.github.io
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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