Daniel Kerse
Principal IP DevOps Engineer at One New Zealand
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Kerse is a Principal IP DevOps Engineer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience in operating and designing service provider Ethernet, IP and MPLS networks across New Zealand, and deep familiarity with DWDM and Mobile Packet Core. After earning dual degrees in Telecommunications and Computer Science from the University of Otago, he spent a decade designing transport networks at Vodafone NZ and now leads IP DevOps at One New Zealand. He combines low-level network troubleshooting skills (tcpdump, Wireshark, IxNetwork) and scripting/sysadmin experience with strategic transport design, enabling fast incident resolution and robust network builds. Known for mentoring operational teams and owning documentation and tooling, he bridges engineering, delivery and operations to keep large-scale carrier networks reliable and auditable.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BAppSc & BSc, Telecommunications & Computer Science, BAppSc & BSc, Telecommunications & Computer Science at University of Otago
Github Skills (14)
monitoring10
network10
snmp10
php10
network-monitoring10
laravel10
rrd10
redis-database8
redis7
juniper7
ansible2
javascript2
agent2
jinja22
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bl3nd3r/librenms
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Contributions:72 pushes, 7 branches, 1 comment in 7 months
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplnetwork-monitoring
bl3nd3r/confgen2
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
jinja2ansibleconfigansible-playbookplaybook
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