Hi, I’m Traw.

System administrator and network engineer, and usually curious about something.

I’m a system administrator and network engineer. Most days, I’m somewhere between Linux, a firewall, and a network diagram, trying to make sense of what’s going on.

I write things down as I go. Sometimes that becomes a short post, sometimes a book, and sometimes a small tool that makes the next job a bit easier.

This site is a place for those things. Useful notes, a few experiments, and the bits I’d rather not have to figure out twice. I’m still learning, which is probably the part I enjoy most.

My everyday toolbox

I work with FortiGate, Check Point, Hillstone and H3C firewalls, FortiGate SD-WAN, VPNs, OSPF and BGP routing, Linux and RHEL, 3CX, Cisco and H3C switches, and cloudflared.

I write books about the command line, too. That’s how you know I’m a nerd.

What I’m playing with lately

Lately, I’ve been using AI to build small tools that make my day-to-day work easier.