Brian Pothier
Sr. Advisor Solutions Architecture at Dell EMC
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Pothier is a seasoned solutions architect and security engineer with 11+ years of experience designing, supporting, and troubleshooting enterprise firewalls and virtualization solutions from the data center to the cloud. Currently a Senior Advisor in Solutions Architecture at Dell EMC, he combines deep Check Point, Nokia IPSO, and Juniper NetScreen expertise with hands-on Solaris, Perl, and networking skills to solve complex security and infrastructure problems. His background includes frontline escalation and platinum support roles, giving him a rare blend of customer-facing troubleshooting and product-level architecture. Brian also contributes to open-source infrastructure tooling, notably extending RackTables to support Cisco UCS hardware inventory and Fabric Interconnect models. Based in Mountain View, he holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from WPI and brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach shaped by years in both engineering and support organizations. Colleagues rely on him to turn intricate operational constraints into auditable, repeatable designs.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RackTables/racktables
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
RackTables current development repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the integration of Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) hardware into RackTables. They added support for parsing UCS ether and FC vnic ports, which required modifications to the code to handle new data fields. Furthermore, they added various Cisco UCS server models and Fabric Interconnects to the system's dictionaries and updated the `ucsproductmap` to include these new objects, improving the RackTables's hardware inventory and management capabilities.
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bpothier/racktables
Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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