Tige Phillips
Senior Road Trip Specialist at Freelance
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTige Phillips is a seasoned infrastructure and networking leader with 11+ years in senior roles and a career stretching back to hands-on network design in the late 1980s. He blends deep protocol-level understanding with modern automation, championing Network-as-Code and APIs to move infrastructure from CLI-driven toil to programmatic, repeatable systems. Tige has led architecture and strategy at companies from Cisco to startups, driving SDN and data center automation projects using tools like ACI, Terraform, and orchestration platforms. He’s equally comfortable mentoring teams as he is writing Python to replace GUIs, believing concept mastery outlasts command memorization. Based in the Portland area, he’s now focused on practical GenAI governance and secure integration of AI into enterprise infrastructure. An avid learner who prefers foundational mechanics over surface-level tooling, he accelerates teams through conceptual clarity and hands-on automation.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Mt. Hood Ski AcademyMt. Hood Community College
Stackoverflow
1,193reputation
325kreached
7answers
3questions
iphone
top-5%
encryption
top-5%
Github Skills (45)
iphone9
encryption9
vcenter8
cisco8
graph8
terraform8
vsphere8
apic8
terraform-provider7
aws7
api7
python-bindings7
network-automation7
iis6
webserver6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tigelane/system_utilities
Nov 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
tigelane/cisco_aci-scripts
Jun 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:111 commits, 2 PRs, 110 pushes in 5 years 9 months
acicisco-acimonitoring
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