📧 blakearidgway@gmail.com · 📍 Enid, Oklahoma
Network and Infrastructure Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, securing, and automating hybrid on-premises and cloud environments. I manage end-to-end network infrastructure — routing, switching, SD-WAN, and firewall policy — alongside cloud networking across AWS and Azure.
Experienced in IaC, Kubernetes, observability, and incident response in regulated, high-availability environments including fintech and government contracting.
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A homelab built on FreeBSD — from firewall to git server. A self-hosted infrastructure project running entirely on FreeBSD. This site documents the build: hardware decisions, network configuration, service deployments, and everything learned along the way. |
Infrastructure you own. Support that shows up. Fixed-price projects. Secure infrastructure on hardware we own. Blake handles your project from first conversation through delivery — with a team behind you for ongoing support. No tickets, no runaround. |
- Network Engineering: Routing, switching, VLANs, SD-WAN, firewalls, and secure network design across on-premises and cloud.
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS VPCs, Azure VNets, hybrid connectivity, and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and Ansible.
- Automation & IaC: CI/CD pipelines, ARM templates, and scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for infrastructure automation.
- Observability & Incident Response: Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, and Azure Monitor for proactive monitoring and faster MTTR.
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| Networking & Security |
BGP/OSPF VLANs SD-WAN VPN Zero Trust
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| Automation & IaC |
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| Observability |
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