Schylar Utley
Director Of Engineering And Operations
Webb City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSchylar Utley is a seasoned network engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building, automating, and operating carrier and ISP networks from the ground up. As Director of Engineering and Operations at OzarksGo and founder of Schy Networks, he combines hands-on routing expertise (BGP, MPLS, EVPN, PIM, Anycast DNS) with pragmatic automation using Python, Ruby, and infrastructure tooling. He’s designed and managed multi-state networks, datacenter and SCADA infrastructure, and led migrations to centralized authentication with YubiKey-backed FreeRadius. An active open-source contributor, Schylar has improved critical projects like NetBox Docker and Oxidized, bringing practical init-script and backup-tool fixes that reflect deep operational knowledge. He mentors engineering and support teams, builds custom BSS/OSS solutions, and provides consulting to regional ISPs—often solving subtle edge cases in carrier-grade systems. Based in Webb City, Missouri, he pairs operator-level troubleshooting with developer sensibilities to deliver resilient, automated networks.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Missouri Southern State UniversityAssociate's degree, General Education, Associate's degree, General Education at Crowder College
English
Github Skills (20)
docker10
python10
ox10
dockers10
routeros10
backup10
netbox10
oxid10
yaml10
network10
tftp10
webhooks9
docker-compose9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ytti/oxidized
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 18 PRs, 38 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Schylar primarily focused on modifying and updating the Oxidized network device configuration backup tool. They made improvements to the RouterOS model, specifically adjusting pattern matching. The user also updated the TFTP input module, including bug fixes and debugging, suggesting a focus on the network configuration backup process. They resolved issues in the alvarion configuration file.
nmsoxidizedrancidbackup-toolnetwork
netbox-community/netbox-docker
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
🐳 Docker Image of NetBox
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 19 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Schylar focused on improving the initialization scripts within the Netbox Docker environment. Their contributions include fixing issues with primary IP initialization, refactoring script order, and adding initializers for custom links and webhooks. Additionally, they addressed error handling and updated scripts to align with newer Netbox releases, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's infrastructure and API integration. The work involved Python scripting and YAML configuration within the Dockerized Netbox setup.
pythondocker-imagenetboxdockerdocker-compose
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