John Hess
Network Engineer at Lawerence Berkeley National Lab - Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Hess is a seasoned network engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating core networks, currently driving infrastructure and research engagement at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's ESnet. He brings deep expertise in interconnection (peering, paid-transit, colocation), BGP policy, traffic engineering, and performance analysis using packet and flow tools like tcpdump, NetFlow and IPFIX. His background spans optical transport (DWDM, open line systems), MPLS/Segment Routing, network automation (YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, Ansible) and observability stacks such as Prometheus and Grafana. A pragmatic systems tinkerer, he combines Unix/Linux performance tuning, virtualization and container orchestration with scripting and development in Python, Bash and C/C++. He excels at multi-institutional collaboration and project management, routinely translating research needs into deployable network solutions. Based in Oakland, he’s known for tenacity in troubleshooting and a quick ability to learn emerging protocols and toolchains.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Davis
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Github Skills (35)
react9
material-design8
material-ui8
tedious8
react-components8
javascript8
typescript7
fog6
httparty6
google-cloud-storage6
css6
rails6
jquery6
capybara6
http-proxy6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
heliosca/headwaters
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:95 PRs, 62 pushes, 84 branches in 6 months
alookatommorow/children-of-mex
Oct 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:70 PRs, 55 pushes, 74 branches in 6 years 4 months
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