Michael Tucker
Senior Principal Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Greater Orlando United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael 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.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (200)
fastapi10
postgresql10
web-application10
python10
json-schema10
databases10
swagger10
cookiecutter10
automation10
backup10
icloud10
robustness10
command-line-tool10
backend10
openapi10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/space-ansible-collection
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
space-ansible-collection
Contributions:4 releases, 44 commits, 17 PRs in 11 months
network-automationansibleansible-collection
mtucker502/pi-disco
Sep 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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