About me

About me

Hi,

You’ve stumbled upon this site, and maybe you don’t know what to expect, and that’s all fine, really. I’m Allan Eising, I’m a Norway based creature of the Homo Sapiens species. A third of my everyday life, or possibly more, is centered about this thing called work, where I sell my skills for sustenance. I work as a Network Engineer, and I care deeply about many aspects of it. Particularly I care about network automation. Which really is a fancy way of taking all the work we do not really want to do, and having machines do it instead.

I realize that you may think that I do not particularly look like one of these nerdy types you may think of, when you think about network engineers, and that leads me to a second passion of mine: Menswear.

I also care deeply about quality clothing, and have a particular style which is more and more becoming entirely my style. I wish I had time to write about it, but I do not really have that at the moment. Instead you may have to be content with all the pictures I post of my various outfits on instagram, which are all copied over to my menswear blog.

Some day I will hopefully have time to write about it.

CV

This CV may not be entirely up to date, but at the time of writing, it is.

Profile

Skilled IP network specialist with a service provider and carrier focus, as well as a deep understanding of technologies. I am a versatile engineer, with a passion for network automation, building scalable infrastructure and solving complex problems.

Skills

I have so far worked with many different network platforms. Among the systems and platforms I consider myself proficient in are:

Networking platforms

• Juniper JunOS
• Cisco IOS, IOS-XE and IOS-XR
• Some NX-OS experience
• Arista EOS
• Some Nokia TiMOS/SROS experience
• MikroTik RouterOS

Protocols

• TCP/IP, IPv4 and IPv6
• BGP, including MP-BGP and other address-families.
• OSPF, IS-IS
• Layer-2 transport families including VLAN, VXLAN, VPLS, E-VPN

Security

• Juniper SRX
• Fortinet FortiOS
• Linux IPtables
• IPSec, OpenVPN etc.

Programming

• Python
• Ruby
• Javascript
• Shell scripting

Frameworks

• Cisco NSO
• Django
• Vue.js
• Many microframeworks, such as Flask and Sinatra

UNIX

• Fluent in Linux/UNIX
• Database experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite

Experience

Network Engineer, Telia Norway, 2017-Present

Operation and maintenance of the Mobile IP backbone. Participation in ²⁴⁄₇ on-duty rotation. Working on key automation projects across the company.

• Notable projects

  • Development project lead for large OSS development and integration project,

  including Cisco NSO package development, OSS orchestration with me in a Scrum Master role.

  • Taking over the operation of an acquisition, and developing software to understand

  the network where only poor documentation existed.

IP and Security Specialist, NORDUnet, 2015-2017

Worked on various research focused networking projects, as well as security related projects. Worked as part of a cross-border team, with most sitting in Sweden.

• Notable projects

  • Implementation of Network Management security solution
  • Integration of IPAM solution
  • 100G network upgrade for Grid Computing Centres

Founder, DKNOG - 2010-present

I have founded the Danish Network Operators Group, and since the beginning been the main organiser of a yearly conference for network engineers in the nordic region. The conference has been growing each year, and become leading in the community. DKNOG continues to engage the community with conferences, events and social happenings, and I have been among the driving forces behind it. I stepped down as chairman in 2017, but remain at the head of the initiative, and I’ve so far been the lead of 9 major conferences that grew from 70 to over 200 participants.