Summary
Matthew Plourde is an experienced enterprise network engineer with 13 years of hands-on expertise designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale Cisco and Juniper environments across retail, government, and manufacturing sectors. He has led architecture and operations for multi-site deployments—modernizing backbones, building high-availability Layer 3 routing with eBGP/iBGP, FHRP, and EtherChannel, and deploying wireless and AAA solutions (Cisco ISE) for mission-critical programs like Project Kuiper. Comfortable both in the datacenter and on the manufacturing floor, he pairs deep tooling knowledge (SolarWinds, Splunk, Cisco DNA/Catalyst Center, Ekahau) with practical incident and change management to drive compliance and uptime. Currently CCNA with ENCOR completed and actively pursuing CCNP Route/Switch, he brings a blend of continual learning and cross-functional collaboration that accelerates prototype and production velocity. Based in Carnation, WA, Matthew has a track record of turning complex, global connectivity requirements into resilient, operational networks.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Accounting, Associate's degree Accounting at Polk State College
Associate's degree Accounting, Associate's degree Accounting at College of the Canyons