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Clay McSpadden

@cmcspadd

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Senior infrastructure network engineer specializing in low-latency, highly available data center and trading networks.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for senior network or architecture roles where I can design and operate low-latency, highly available networks, mentor teams, and drive automation and observability.

I am a Senior Infrastructure Network Engineer with extensive experience designing, deploying, and operating highly available, low-latency networks for regulated market environments. I specialize in spine-leaf data center architecture, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, multicast, and traffic observability.

Throughout my career I have supported latency-sensitive trading and market data platforms with zero tolerance for instability, led network design and migrations at major organizations, and built monitoring and packet-capture solutions across multiple data centers. I have deep hands-on experience with Arista, Juniper, Cisco, F5, and automation tools such as Ansible and NetBox.

I take ownership of documentation, change management, and runbook creation, and I participate in 24/7 on-call rotations to ensure operational excellence. I seek to bring reliability, low-latency performance, and scalable architecture practices to teams operating critical network infrastructure.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Network Engineer

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Intercontinental Exchange

Jun 2020 - Present (5 years 8 months)

Designed and deployed monitoring and low-latency network infrastructure across three new data centers, implemented spine-leaf designs and nanosecond packet capture, and supported 24/7 network escalations for latency-sensitive trading platforms.

BGP Arista Juniper Ansible NetBox IPSEC Packet Captures Network Monitoring

Network Architect

Caesars Entertainment

Jul 2019 - Aug 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Architected and upgraded MPLS/eBGP circuits and executed a spine-and-leaf migration, selected SD-WAN solutions, and produced network documentation for multi-vendor deployments.

MPLS Juniper SRX SD WAN SIP Trunking Visio Project Delivery

Senior Network Engineer

Visible Supply Chain Management

Sep 2018 - Jul 2019 (10 months)

Designed and deployed Juniper SRX firewalls and Brocade switch stacks for nationwide fulfillment centers, created baseline configurations and MOPs, and maintained high-availability networks with 100% uptime targets.

Juniper SRX Brocade ICX OSPF BGP SNMP

Senior Network Engineer

3M Health Information Systems

Apr 2018 - Sep 2018 (5 months)

Redesigned Austin data center for HA and redundancy, configured Nexus 9K designs, ASAs, F5 load balancers, and supported AWS networking while ensuring resilient SIP/CUBE connectivity.

Nexus VPC Cube High Availability

Senior Network Engineer

VMware AirWatch

Mar 2017 - Nov 2017 (8 months)

Supported cloud operations for AirWatch SaaS platform by configuring F5 vCMP instances, designing DMVPN, deploying Nexus platforms, and configuring Palo Alto and ASA firewalls for performance labs.

DMVPN EIGRP Nexus AWS Load Balancing Cloud Operations

Senior Network Design Engineer

AT&T

Apr 2014 - Apr 2016 (2 years)

Led regional optimization and decommissioning efforts for network infrastructure, managed capacity planning and migrations to cloud, and served as project lead for Western USA equipment transitions.

Cisco Juniper Capacity Planning Project Management Inventory Management

Senior Network Engineer

AT&T

Jul 2008 - Apr 2014 (5 years 9 months)

Provided L3 lifecycle support for Mobility CBB network, authored and validated router configurations across PE/CE devices, maintained zero planned outage target and owned Tier 3 incident resolution and on-call rotations.

Juniper Cisco Network Operations OSS Ticketing