Tony
Pignatelli
Tech Necromancer and Grand Wizard
Engineer at Uniserve Communications. I build service provider networks, the datacenters they live in, and the automation that keeps me from doing the same thing twice.
Carrier core, end to end
A Cisco MPLS core linking geo-diverse datacenters, autonomous system 33044 and every BGP peering session on it, plus a 1000 km² fixed wireless network built from the tower up.
Datacenters and the DR behind them
Builds, fiber termination, virtualization on every major on-prem and cloud platform, and a multi-site disaster recovery design running over VPLS. One of those rebuilds followed a customer’s building fire.
Software where the toil was
Laravel applications for employee onboarding, router failover and DR failover, custom integrations between internal systems, and a growing pile of local LLM experiments.
Mission & values
Five things I keep coming back to,
whether the work is a core router
or a weekend side project.
My work sits where network automation, datacenter infrastructure and AI meet: designing systems that cost less to run than the ones they replace, and sharing what I learn along the way through mentorship and plain documentation.
- Innovation
- Explore new ideas, experiment with the cutting edge, keep improving what already works.
- Collaboration
- Teamwork, openness and mutual respect, at work and everywhere else.
- Autonomy
- Decisions made on objective grounds, not on pressure or bias.
- Learning
- Lifelong, and non-negotiable in an industry that reinvents itself every few years.
- Communication
- Clear, concise and readable by every stakeholder, not just the network people.
I enjoy making things
IP ACL
Simple online access list manager for use with next gen firewalls. Managed threat feeds and more.
Riverbot
River conditions, favourites, and alerts for the flows and temperatures you choose. Available on the web, iPhone, and Apple Watch.
tPnet
Serverless website for tPnet industries corporation, leveraging cloudflare pages and workers for the contact form. All content created by llm, and imagery from unsplash
Now
Updated when I remember to.
Get in touch
Happy to talk networks, datacenter design, automation, or where the steelhead are running. The contact form at tPnet reaches me.
