OpenAI
2025 - Present
Member of Technical Staff, Network Security Engineer
Design, build and operate secure networks.
- Security
- Networking
- SRE
- Python
Bede Carroll's Resume
Bede Carroll
Experienced Network and Site Reliability Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and automation.
About
Network and Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, network design, and automation. Skilled in Python, Ansible, and Terraform for building scalable solutions across multi-cloud environments. Proven track record in designing and maintaining complex network systems at Meta and TikTok, with expertise in troubleshooting, monitoring, and optimizing infrastructure for reliability and performance.
Work Experience
TikTok USDS
2024 - 2025
Site Reliablility Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Build, design and maintain production cloud infrastructure.
- Build, maintain, and optimize cloud automation solutions using Ansible, Terraform, cloud-init, and Python, reducing deployment times and increasing infrastructure consistency
- Design, provision, and manage server infrastructure across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring scalability and reliability
- Implement advanced load balancers with layer 3/layer 4 and layer 7 load balancers
- Create comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions using cloud-native tooling, Grafana, and Kibana, enabling proactive issue detection and rapid incident response
- Perform in-depth troubleshooting and root cause analysis across complex bare-metal and virtualized cloud infrastructure, minimizing service disruptions
- Cloud
- Networking
- SRE
- Load Balancer
- Python
Endsight
2023 - 2024
Senior System Engineer
As a Senior System Engineer at Endsight, I blend my DevOps and Site Reliability/Production Engineering expertise with a diverse technology skill set to drive impactful business changes.
- Spearheaded the design, and deployment of a company-wide monorepo using Git, Gitlab and Github, enhancing code management and collaboration efficiency.
- Developed comprehensive dashboards for aggregating multiple monitoring systems, streamlining the process of data visualization and analytics. This initiative significantly improved operational insights and decision-making capabilities.
- Engineered internal reporting tools for the Network Operations Center (NOC), facilitating real-time data tracking and system performance analysis.
- Conceptualized and deployed a web-based service catalog utilizing a blend of technologies including HTML, Python, Flask, JavaScript, and Bootstrap.
- At Endsight in my role as a Senior System Engineer I have a keen focus on automating processes, optimizing system reliability, and implementing robust, scalable solutions that cater to the dynamic needs of the business. As a Senior System Engineer, I not only focus on technical implementation but also work to skill up the team through teaching and mentoring.
- Remote
- Python
- Flask
- Bootstrap
- Operations
Facebook/Meta
2017 - 2023
Network Engineer → Production Engineer
Production Engineer with a network specialization on the Infrastructure Network Engineering team. The team is responsible for multiple different production networks at Meta. Network engineer for the corporate networking team at Meta. Focused on the office network specifically. Responsible for the wired and WAN edge network for the global office footprint and operationally involved in the wireless and remote access VPN systems.
- Design new networks from requirements provided by customers and partners
- Operate a globally distributed office network with well over 100 locations and 10s of thousands of users
- Operate multiple distinct networks with 10s of thousands of devices
- Build and maintain automation systems (primarily in Python with some Golang and C++/Rust based systems)
- Build and action alerts and automate remediations
- Build dashboards and SNMP/Netconf/XML/JSON monitoring of network device status
- Member of a 24/7 oncall
- Mentor and onboard new hires
- Interview candidates in networking, coding and systems design (interviewed over 120 candidates)
- Create and assist with the creation of team roadmaps along with project management of roadmap items
- Networking
- Cisco
- Juniper
- Arista
- Python
Education
Charles Sturt University
2012 - 2012
Master of Networking and Systems Administration
Charles Sturt University
2011 - 2012
Graduate Certificate in Information Systems Security
Skills
- Cisco
- Arista
- Juniper
- Load Balancing
- Python
- Automation
- DNS
- DHCP
- Troubleshooting
- Wireshark
- Cloud
- Ansible
- Terraform