Summary
Derek Smiley is a Senior Engineer III in Enterprise Networking with nine years focused on designing, implementing, and automating complex L2/L3 datacenter and campus networks. He brings hands-on expertise across ACI, NX-OS, IOS/XE, PAN-OS, ISE, ASA/FTD and virtualization with VMware, and routinely applies Python/Jinja2 to streamline mass provisioning and configuration management. Comfortable leading small teams and projects, he pairs strong documentation and Visio diagramming skills with practical security and NAC experience (TACACS+/RADIUS). Based in Colorado Springs, Derek blends field-level wiring and operations roots with enterprise architecture know-how, and candidly notes a penchant for verbosity that underscores thoroughness in technical communication.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
General, General at Waubonsie Valley High School