Summary
Gaston Bougie is a senior network engineer based in Maastricht with over a decade of experience designing, building and automating large-scale carrier and enterprise network infrastructures. He has deep hands-on expertise across Cisco, Huawei, Alcatel‑Lucent, Fortinet and a broad security and virtualization stack (Splunk, RSA, VMware, Infoblox, Checkpoint, Citrix). At VodafoneZiggo he progressed from development and architecture roles into network deployment management, and now applies that operational and architectural background at SouthernHill. Passionate about automation, he focuses evenings on Python-driven network automation and data analytics and is also fluent in Go, C, Perl, PHP, JavaScript and Android Java. Colleagues know him for bridging low-level protocol and electronics curiosity with pragmatic automation to reduce toil and speed deployments. He often pairs classic carrier-grade thinking with developer practices to turn operational complexity into repeatable, data-informed systems.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBO, Telematica, MBO, Telematica at Leeuwenborgh college
English, Dutch