Summary
Rich Boldy is a seasoned network architect and Sr. Network Development Engineer with over a decade of experience across US and European carrier, backbone ISP, security, and large enterprise environments. Currently focused on LEO terrestrial networking at Amazon, he brings deep protocol-level expertise (MPLS, EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, ISIS, IPv6, SD-WAN, LISP) and vendor experience spanning Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel, Arista, Dell and ADVA. He has held senior roles at Symantec and Time Warner Cable where he led architecture, cloud backbone and commercial service development, and authored Internet-Drafts on L2VPN/VPLS topics. Certified across multiple vendors (CCNA/CCNP, JNCIA/JNCIS-SP, IPv6 Forum Gold, MEF-CECP), Rich blends hands-on troubleshooting with training for technical and non-technical audiences. Known for solving hard interoperability and scaling problems, he often operates at the intersection of carrier-grade design and pragmatic operations. Based in Austin, Texas, he couples carrier-grade rigor with a practical focus on deployable, secure network solutions.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of East Anglia