Cliff Albert
Senior Network Engineer at Dustin
Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolCliff Albert is a seasoned Senior Network Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building and operating ISP and enterprise networks, and nine years of focused professional experience. Based in Sittard, Netherlands, he has led network engineering and private cloud projects using technologies such as Cisco Nexus, FortiGate, H3C Comware, StorPool and OpenNebula. As co-founder and long-time engineer at Unilogic, Cliff progressed from support and on-prem networking to designing resilient multi-vendor solutions and managing customer deployments. He contributes to open-source network tooling—most notably extending LibreNMS’s gen_rancid integration to support a wide range of vendor devices—which reflects a pragmatic approach to automation and configuration management. Known for blending operational rigor with platform-building, he’s comfortable from low-level device quirks to cloud platform orchestration. Cliff’s background includes early ISP construction and event network organization, showing a career-long appetite for hands-on problem solving and infrastructure reliability.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, HAVO at RKSG ServiamBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Fontys Hogeschool
English, German, Dutch, French
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Github Skills (11)
network10
snmpd10
snmp10
php10
nms9
lms9
nm9
network-protocol9
protocols9
laravel7
laravel-mix7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
librenms/librenms
Mar 2019 - Apr 2022
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 3 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Cliff primarily contributed to the `gen_rancid.php` script, which is likely used for generating device configurations for the Rancid configuration management tool. They added support for various network device types, including Cisco SB switches, Allied Telesis, Cisco WLC, H3C/Comware, Fortiswitch, and MRV OptiDriver. The commits involve modifications to the script's logic, mapping device OS types to Rancid configuration types, and adapting code to handle different vendor-specific configurations.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
cliffalbert/scripts
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Script Collection for general usage
Contributions:44 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 3 years 9 months
script-collection
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