Ian Kirkpatrick
Lead Network Engineer at Mastercard
Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorIan Kirkpatrick is a Lead Network Engineer based in Kirkcaldy with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing and operating complex IP networks, holding CCIE No. 15960 in Routing & Switching. He has deep expertise across Cisco platforms and substantial exposure to Alcatel/Xylan, 3Com, HP Procurve and F5, having delivered solutions for banks, government, telecoms and payment networks. Currently leading network engineering at Mastercard, he blends traditional architecture skills with practical automation—actively working with Ansible and Python to modernize operations. His career spans senior roles and consultancy work across Europe, evidencing an ability to architect both large-scale carrier and enterprise networks. Not obvious from titles alone: he’s equally comfortable migrating legacy infrastructures as he is implementing programmatic, repeatable deployments. This combination of CCIE-level troubleshooting and automation focus makes him effective at reducing operational risk while accelerating change.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (1)
ansible3
Github contributions (5)
iankirkpatrick/ansible-bigip
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 3 months
f5-ltmansibleltmconfigureansible-playbook
iankirkpatrick/hello-world
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
python
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