Darren Bono
Vice President, Ground Networks at SES Satellites
Marietta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Bono is a network engineering leader with 20+ years designing, automating, and operating mission-critical global IP/MPLS and data center networks, now serving as Vice President, Ground Networks at SES Satellites. He builds and leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver carrier-grade, geo-redundant platforms for enterprise and media content delivery, combining core routing, broadcast engineering, and transport into a unified technical vision. A strong practitioner of Network-as-Code and model-driven service design (YANG), Darren champions API-first automation, CI/CD workflows, and SRE/NRE practices to make network changes repeatable, testable, and auditable. Known for diving deep on complex end-to-end problems, he aligns vendors and stakeholders to deliver resilient outcomes and measurably reduce change risk. Based in Marietta, GA, he brings military communications operations experience and a pragmatic emphasis on telemetry and operational rigor that often distinguishes strategic designs from merely theoretical ones.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Science, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Science at Excelsior University
Italian
Github Skills (9)
netscaler5
cisco5
network-automation4
ansible-role4
ansible4
automation3
high-availability2
orchestration2
keepalived2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dbono711/supernets
Feb 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 8 months
dbono711/ansible-nso-local-install
Jun 2021 - Mar 2024
Ansible role for Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) Local installation
Contributions:6 releases, 16 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 9 months
network-automationorchestratoransibleinstallationnso
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