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I work as a contractor for NetBox Labs, after years as a Cisco Sales Architect for financial customers. I turn complex network deployments into manageable code, and I share the lessons learned along the way.

Here you'll find practical guides on GitLab CI/CD, network digital twins, infrastructure as code, and the occasional home lab adventure.

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Building a Two-Node LLM Inference Cluster on NVIDIA GX10 (GB10)

Two GX10 boxes, a 230B MoE coding model, and one flag I should never have set. How 25 tok/s became 40.4, and why it stops there.

September 21, 2026• 17 min read

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EVPN in a Box Part 3: CI/CD, an LLM That Talks to Your Lab, and the Memory Wall

The final stretch: adding a GitLab CI/CD pipeline, wiring an LLM into the lab through MCP, and discovering that the lite NX-OS image can't actually run BGP EVPN.

March 27, 2026• 12 min read

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EVPN in a Box Part 1: Running Nexus Dashboard and CML on a Single Proxmox Node

What happens when your VMware license expires and you try to run Cisco Nexus Dashboard and CML on Proxmox instead? Broken interface names, a wizard that forgets everything, and a weekend of initrd surgery.

March 20, 2026• 10 min read

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VXLAN as Code: Why I Built a Two-Day Workshop Around It

Why network teams struggle with VXLAN EVPN automation and how a hands-on workshop helps bridge the gap between GUI clicks and infrastructure as code.

March 18, 2026• 7 min read

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Building a Two-Node LLM Inference Cluster on NVIDIA GX10 (GB10)

Two GX10 boxes, a 230B MoE coding model, and one flag I should never have set. How 25 tok/s became 40.4, and why it stops there.

September 21, 2026• 17 min read

Cisco Technologies

EVPN in a Box Part 3: CI/CD, an LLM That Talks to Your Lab, and the Memory Wall

The final stretch: adding a GitLab CI/CD pipeline, wiring an LLM into the lab through MCP, and discovering that the lite NX-OS image can't actually run BGP EVPN.

March 27, 2026• 12 min read

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EVPN in a Box Part 2: Building an Automated VXLAN/EVPN Fabric Deployer

I built a tool that deploys a full VXLAN/EVPN data center fabric from a single YAML file. Four Nexus 9000v switches, two VRFs, two overlay networks. This is not a tutorial. This is a war story.

March 23, 2026• 8 min read

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