Summary
Michael Tucker is a Senior Principal Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, securing, and automating large-scale network infrastructures, particularly across Juniper MX, SRX, EX and related security platforms. He blends deep networking expertise (multiple JNCIE/JNCIP certifications) with software craftsmanship—leading automation initiatives, building Ansible collections, Python SDKs, REST microservices and cloud-native tooling used by internal teams and service providers. Known as the “buck stops here” engineer, he has owned executive escalations and delivered high-scale deployments like a 540,000-concurrent SSL VPN rollout for HP while reducing reliance on vendor support. Michael is equally comfortable in lab-driven feature validation and operational production support, with a track record of creating bespoke diagnostics (PCAP parsers) and upgrade automation to minimize service impact. Based in Greater Orlando, he pairs security-first architecture with pragmatic delivery, often bridging product, support, and engineering to turn complex requirements into reliable, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems at University of Central Florida