Ivan Ivanov

Ivan Ivanov is a highly experienced network engineer with over 10 years in the field, boasting a diverse skill set and a deep understanding of various network technologies.

His expertise spans complex datacenter designs, virtualization, overlay technologies, multi-tenancy, firewalls, load balancing solutions, TCP/IP protocol stack, routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, MPLS technology, MPLS VPNs, datacenter switching technologies, and more.

Ivan is well-versed in SAN technologies such as FC, FCoE, iSCSI, and NFS, with hands-on experience in Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Checkpoint, ASA firewalls, Layer 4-7 service chaining, and F5 Load balancing solutions.

He holds a CCIE #57783 (Enterprise Infrastructure) certification and is HP MASE certified, currently pursuing the CCIE DataCenter track.

Ivan's interests lie in Cisco ACI, VMWare NSX, Cisco HyperFlex, hyperconverged infrastructure, OpenStack, Docker, Python, Open vSwitch, and Linux.

His educational background includes a Master's degree from Technical University Varna and a PhD from Technical University Sofia.

Throughout his career, Ivan has held key roles such as Head of Ops Network Infrastructure at BULATSA, Aeronautical Communication Engineer at BULATSA, Network Deep Technical Support at Hewlett-Packard, CCNA Instructor at Cisco Networking Academy, Network Technical Support Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, Specialist Fault Management at Alcatel-Lucent, and Digital Network Engineer at VIVACOM.