Ross Cartwright
Senior Resident Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
- Role
- Senior Resident Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ross Cartwright
Network Security Architect/Engineer with 20+ years of experience - PCNSE, CCNPI design and defend production networks that cannot go down. Palo Alto Networks is my home field: Panorama, Prisma Access, GlobalProtect, Threat Prevention, targeted SSL decryption. I pair that with real BGP and OSPF on Cisco, Arista, Cumulus, and cloud edges that behave in AWS, GCP, and Azure. I run clean change windows, fix ugly incidents, and leave runbooks that survive 2 am.What I doPalo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet, and Juniper firewalls, VPN, segmentation, RBAC, 802.1X with ISE, Zero Trust, Best PracticeRouting and switching at scale - BGP, OSPF, spine-leaf - predictable failoverCloud edge - AWS VPC plus TGW with VM-Series - logging to Splunk and ELKIncident response - Wireshark, tcpdump, NetFlow/IPFIX - MTTR downPolicy hygiene - remove shadows and duplicates - least privilege
Experience
Senior Resident Engineer
Jan 2017 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Network Security Engineer / Firewall SME.Advise on Best Practice and Security Architecture/Design.
Education
UCLA
Bachelor of Arts
Skills
- Cloud Computing
- Linux
- Troubleshooting
- Cisco Technologies
- Microsoft Office
- Network Security
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