Steve ulrich
Engineer at NANOG
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorSteve Ulrich is a seasoned network engineer with 13+ years focused on service provider and hyperscaler environments, currently applying his expertise at Nexthop AI and serving on the NANOG program committee. He combines deep protocol-level knowledge—MPLS, ISIS/OSPF, BGP, segment routing—and hands-on experience with major NOSes (Arista EOS, Cisco IOS/XR/NE, Junos, PAN-OS) to help customers move more bits, faster. His background spans architecture and field consulting roles at Arista, Juniper and Cisco where he led SR-TE, streaming telemetry and SDN initiatives for large-scale cloud and MSDC customers. An active contributor to the Capirca ACL generator (improving Arista traffic-policy support and code quality), he pairs pragmatic automation skills in Python, Go and JavaScript with deep operational insight. Based in Minneapolis, he’s a routing nerd who blends low-level protocol engineering with practical integration work that drives production outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (5)
acl10
python10
text-processing9
network-configuration8
unit-testing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/capirca
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Multi-platform ACL generation system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the `arista_tp.py` module, which appears to be responsible for generating Arista traffic policies. Their work focused on adding support for new features like traffic-policy options and improvements to comment handling, including reflowing comments for better readability. Additionally, they fixed logging issues and improved the naming of terms for mixed address family filters. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving code quality and expanding the feature set of the Arista Traffic Policy generator.
netmikonetwork-automationtraceroutemulti-platformnetwork-programming
sulrich/qmk_firmware
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
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