Summary
Lamoni Finlayson (Mo) is a retired network automation and software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building microservice-driven OSS and integration solutions, most recently leading network automation and monitoring efforts at Tesla. A JNCIE-SP-certified expert, he blends deep networking protocol know-how (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, L3VPNs, BGP-LS, PCEP, NetConf/Junos) with full‑stack development in Python, PHP, JavaScript, and frameworks like Flask and FastAPI. Comfortable across CI/CD, containers, orchestration, and IaC, he has built custom Terraform providers, contributed to Packer, and written tooling around Envoy, ExaBGP, and Trickster. He prefers pragmatic, API-first integrations—if a service lacks an API, he’ll devise a solution—and has deployed and maintained production stacks using MySQL, Postgres, Neo4j, InfluxDB, Redis, and Grafana. Based in Portland, Oregon, his GitHub reflects a continued passion for network automation and open-source tooling even in retirement.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English