Steve Gibbard

1412 McGee Ave

Berkeley, CA 94703

USA

+1 510 528-1263

scg@stevegibbard.com

http://www.stevegibbard.com

Summary:

Steve Gibbard is an expert on critical Internet infrastructure. His recent focus has been on network topology for critical DNS services, including designing infrastructure to support several top level domains. He has also done extensive work on Internet peering and exchange points. Steve is a frequent speaker at Internet industry conferences, and writes regularly about issues of Internet infrastructure design and economics.

Areas of Expertise:

• Domain Name System infrastructure.
• Anycast network architecture for global service distribution.
• Local Internet traffic exchange in poorly connected areas.
• Inter-ISP communication for peering and other coordination.
• Routing architecture.
• Datacenter design for colocation.
• Network architecture for cloud computing services.
• Network design, troubleshooting, and documentation.

Experience:

ServePath/GoGrid

San Francisco, California

Network Architecture/Operations Consultant

March, 2008 to present

• Network architecture to stabilize and make scalable a 3,000 customer managed hosting services datacenter network.
• Network architecture for GoGrid, a virtual server/”cloud computing” service, as it grew past the capabilities of its original design.
• Supported and trained the network engineering group in architectural guidelines, change management, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Assisted with management of the network engineering group.

Packet Clearing House

Berkeley, California

Network Architect

February, 2003 to March, 2008

• Architecture, construction, and operation of an anycast DNS network, hosting country code top level domains for twenty countries (.np, .bs, .mu, .ua, and others), as well as .biz and several copies of one of the root DNS servers (i.root-servers.net), in 30 locations on six continents.
• Research on DNS topology and other critical infrastructure issues, resulting in several conference presentations and published papers.
• Advised Internet service providers and government officials on Internet infrastructure issues.
• Architecture, construction, and operation of a worldwide data collection network, collecting Internet routing data from exchange points.
• Peering coordination. Soliciting peers and turning up peering sessions at Internet exchange points around the world.

Steve Gibbard Consulting

Berkeley, California

Internet Infrastructure Consultant

January, 2003 to Present

• Worked on a variety of consulting projects, including:
• Advised CRG West on strategy for their Any2 exchange project.
• Network architecture for OpenDNS, an anycasted open recursive DNS server system.
• Network architecture and operations support for ServePath, a dedicated hosting/colocation company in San Francisco.
• Network architecture and operations supervision for UnitedLayer’s US Internet backbone.
• US peering coordination for SingAREN, the Singapore research and education network.
• Negotiated agreements to move several large peers to private peering for Hurricane Electric, an International ISP and hosting provider.

Cable & Wireless Internet Services

(Formerly Exodus, and before that Digital Island)

San Francisco, California

Senior Network Engineer, Network Infrastructure, Managed Web Hosting

March, 2002 to December, 2002

• Team Lead, Managed Web Hosting Network Infrastructure group.
• Lead a five engineer group providing top level support and working on long term projects for managed web hosting customers and infrastructure.
• Worked on integration of the Exodus and Digital Island web hosting networks with the Cable & Wireless Internet backbone, including bringing legacy hosting environments into compliance with Cable & Wireless standards.
• Trained network support and implementation engineers.

Senior Network Engineer, Network Infrastructure

December, 2001 to March, 2002

• Part of the team responsible for the building and maintenance of Digital Island's network backbone.

Network Engineer, Customer Engineering

June, 2000 to November, 2001

• Acting Team Lead, Western US Customer Engineering, April, 2001 to November, 2001. Led team responsible for installation and support of hosting services.
• Did large customized hosting installations, including multiple VLANs, Cisco PIX firewalls, Cisco CSS load balancers, and back-end T1 connections to the customers' facilities.

World Wide Net

Livonia, Michigan

Network Engineer/System Administrator

December, 1996 to April, 2000

• Responsible for the design and maintenance of a local Internet Service Provider’s network, which included six POPs throughout Southeastern Michigan.
• Unix/Linux system administration.
• Assisted sales people with technical details during meetings with customers.

Eidelman Associates

Ann Arbor, Michigan

System Administrator/Programmer/Consultant

June, 1995 to December, 1996

• Administered local area networks for the company and several clients.
• Developed web sites for the company and several clients.
• Consulted with clients on a variety of issues, including local area networks, Internet connectivity, hardware upgrades, and software issues.
• Answered technical support questions.

Ann Arbor Public Schools

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Computer Resource Person

November, 1994 to June, 1995

• Supervised a high school computer lab and answered students' and teachers' computer questions.
• Maintained LAN and computers in the lab.

Publications:

• "Smart Growth" for the Internet, Any2 Exchange Quarterly Newsletter, November, 2007.
• Observations on Anycast Topology and Performance, DNS Operations Workshop, July, 2007.
• Geographic Implications of DNS Infrastructure Distribution, Internet Protocol Journal, March, 2007.
• Internet Mini-Cores: Local Communications in the Internet's "Spur" Regions, SANOG, February, 2005.
• Looking Glasses, NANOG, January, 2005.
• Economics of Peering, Switch and Data Peering Forum, October, 2004.
• ISP Experiences with DDOS attacks, PAIX Peering Forum, December, 2003.

Professional organizations:

NANOG: North American Network Operators Group

• Author of “NANOG Reform” document, proposing a new organizational structure for the organization.
• Editor of NANOG bylaws, adopted in May, 2005.