Brian Mcgahan
Director Of Content - Networking at INE
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian McGahan is a networking leader and educator with over two decades immersed in IP architecture, certification training, and product development—co-founding Internetwork Expert and now serving as Director of Content - Networking. A four-time CCIE and CCDE holder, he began earning top-tier certifications unusually early (first CCIE at age 20) and has helped thousands of engineers prepare for CCIE exams through hands-on courses and lab design. He combines large-scale ISP and enterprise consulting experience with practical engineering work automating network lab environments (contributions to the INE-VIRL repo highlight scripting and verification improvements). Based in Chicago, Brian blends deep protocol-level expertise, data center and security specialization, and a knack for turning complex networking concepts into teachable, testable content.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
CCIE Routing & Switching Computer Networking, CCIE Routing & Switching Computer Networking at CyscoExpert
Github Skills (14)
network-automation10
sh10
automation10
script10
automations10
bash10
shell10
automation-testing10
scripting10
test-automation10
linux9
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
yaml5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
Internetworkexpert/INE-VIRL
Mar 2016 - Feb 2022
INE VIRL Topologies & Initial Configs
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:176 commits, 2 PRs, 164 pushes in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brian appears to be focused on automating and improving the functionality of a network topology lab environment. Their contributions include modifying shell scripts (`wrapper.sh`, `command.sh`, `lab1.ts.sh`) to enhance the user experience. They are also adding scripts for automated verification. Further changes include modifying script outputs and file encoding.
virlconfigsinitialtopologies
ine-content/NDFC
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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