Clay Curtis
Director, Network Infrastructure & Services at Kepler Communications Inc.
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClay Curtis is a network infrastructure leader with 12 years of experience building resilient, large-scale networks and security architectures across enterprise and space communications. As Director of Network Infrastructure & Services at Kepler, he oversees the team delivering connectivity for satellite-enabled internet, drawing on prior roles as Principal Network Architect and Distinguished Engineer. He has deep hands-on expertise in routing, switching, SD-WAN, BGP/OSPF designs, private PKI, and high-availability WAN and data center deployments for healthcare, education, and national-scale customers. Clay’s background includes designing multi-cloud, dual-hub WANs with five-nines uptime and extending Layer 2 across data centers on Nexus/ASR platforms, showing a blend of strategic architecture and practical implementation. He combines enterprise consulting experience from Presidio with operator-grade service delivery at Kepler, uniquely positioning him to translate space networking requirements into production-grade terrestrial infrastructure. Outside the job title, his GitHub tagline—“Building the Internet for Space”—highlights a focus on next-generation network challenges that bridge traditional networking and orbital connectivity.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Aucilla Christian AcademyBSBA Information Systems, BSBA Information Systems at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (200)
devsecops10
parser10
python10
cortex10
emoji10
security10
automation10
backup10
nms10
ssh10
markdown10
network-configuration10
progress-bar10
ansible10
cisco10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
clay584/knex
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Python library for creating chainable parsers
Contributions:184 commits, 30 PRs, 122 pushes in 2 months
python-librarydeltapythonparsersdata-format
clay584/genie_collection
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Brings Cisco Genie parse, learn, and diff capabilities to Ansible
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 months
network-automationansiblecapabilitiesparsegenie
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