ESnet (United States)

Nick Buraglio

Nick Buraglio has been involved in the networking industry in varying roles since 1997. Prior to joining the Network Engineering group at ESnet, Nick was employed by the University of Illinois as the Lead Network Engineer working on research, HPC, and wide area connectivity. In this role, Nick also functioned as the Lead Network Engineer and IP architect for the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) broadband project of the year, UC2B. Nick has also held Network Engineering positions at early regional broadband internet providers as well as at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Nick has participated in the SCinet working group on many occasions and has been involved in R&E, high performance networking and security since 2002. In addition to Network Engineering positions, Nick has been involved in cybersecurity from the campus, enterprise and service provider perspective and acted as a resource and trainer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nick has been active in the SDN community since 2009 and is currently actively involved in several SDN and security related initiatives and projects.