Tony Bourke

• Teach networking, automation, and infrastructure topics including Cisco, Arista, Ansible, and virtualization.
• Develop courseware, labs, and hands-on exercises.
• Deliver training in-person and remotely to students around the world.

Focus areas: Arista EOS, CloudVision, AVD, automation workflows, Cisco Nexus, UCS, ACI, MDS, Tetration, F5, A10, NetScaler, Python, and Ansible.

Training affiliations:

• Arista / SDN Pros (2019-2026)
• Lumos (2015–2019)
• Firefly (2008–2015)

• Trained student skydivers through the USPA Accelerated Freefall program.
• Served as Safety and Training Advisor responsible for training standards and safety oversight.
• Led canopy control courses and safety seminars.
• Taught aircraft procedures, formation skydiving, and emergency handling.

• Supported F5 BIG-IP/LTM and WAN optimization platforms including F5, Cisco, and Riverbed.

• Worked across product development, QA, support, and deployment for a load balancer startup.
• Contributed to early-stage product and customer support processes.

• Evaluated customer environments and recommended firewall solutions.
• Delivered technical training across North and South America.

• Supported pre-sales and customer deployments for an event automation platform.
• Helped customers integrate and automate monitoring systems.

• Built and maintained FreeBSD and Linux infrastructure for an advertising platform.
• Helped deploy click-fraud mitigation systems.
• Developed monitoring tools for large frame relay networks.

• Built lab environments and supported hosted infrastructure clients.
• Served as an escalation point for Unix, storage, and load balancing issues.

• Designed and deployed large-scale hosting environments.
• Led rollout of MTV.com’s early outsourced data center with more than 100 servers.
• Provided escalation support for major media clients.

• Led Sun Solaris support operations.
• Managed large customer deployments with 20 or more servers per rollout.

• Helped grow the hosting platform from one server to more than 200.
• Supported more than 1,200 systems across Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows.
• Built monitoring and alerting systems.
• Deployed dial-up infrastructure using US Robotics and Lucent Portmasters.