“Zach is a top notch engineer, that epitomizes value add from an organization. He operates on another level from the rest of the pack. I hold his opinion, creativity and experience in developing solutions, in high regard.”
About
Technology chameleon.
Activity
-
Recently I had the opportunity to go to Europe to visit a customer. In a random turn of events, we had to changed hotels so all my Zscaler peers…
Recently I had the opportunity to go to Europe to visit a customer. In a random turn of events, we had to changed hotels so all my Zscaler peers…
Liked by Zach S.
-
CX and contact center testing success needs turning insight into action and preparing for real-world customer impact. That’s easy to say, but not…
CX and contact center testing success needs turning insight into action and preparing for real-world customer impact. That’s easy to say, but not…
Liked by Zach S.
-
Last night, I learned that several of my incredibly talented colleagues in UX Research were impacted by organizational changes. I want to highlight…
Last night, I learned that several of my incredibly talented colleagues in UX Research were impacted by organizational changes. I want to highlight…
Liked by Zach S.
Experience
Licenses & Certifications
Publications
-
Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services (2nd Edition)
Cisco Press
This book brings together all the information you need to design and deploy scalable, transparent application acceleration, WAN optimization, and branch virtualization solutions with dramatically improved Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 4.1 products from Cisco®.
Other authors -
-
Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services
Cisco Press
Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services is the first comprehensive guide to designing and deploying solutions with these Cisco technologies. Zach Seils and Joel Christner show how to deploy Cisco WAAS in a scalable, transparent, and seamless fashion that responds to both your business and technical challenges. Writing for network design and implementation engineers and other networking professionals, they cover the entire planning and configuration process. Drawing on their extensive…
Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services is the first comprehensive guide to designing and deploying solutions with these Cisco technologies. Zach Seils and Joel Christner show how to deploy Cisco WAAS in a scalable, transparent, and seamless fashion that responds to both your business and technical challenges. Writing for network design and implementation engineers and other networking professionals, they cover the entire planning and configuration process. Drawing on their extensive experience implementing WAAS in the enterprise, they also offer real-world implementation examples and case studies–including full chapters on network, branch office, and data center integration.
Other authors -
Patents
-
Services Controlled Session Based Flow Interceptor
Filed US 13/200,166
Other inventors -
-
Handling Perceived Packet Loops with Transparent Network Services
Filed US 13/191,575
Other inventors -
-
Controlling Directional Asymmetricity in Wide Area Networks
Filed US 12/761,511
Other inventors -
Organizations
-
International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP)
Chair, SDN Special Interest Group (SDN-SIG)
-
Recommendations received
10 people have recommended Zach
Join now to viewMore activity by Zach
-
We’re proud to partner with Wiz on zeroday.cloud, the first-of-its-kind cloud security hacking competition. This December, top researchers will…
We’re proud to partner with Wiz on zeroday.cloud, the first-of-its-kind cloud security hacking competition. This December, top researchers will…
Liked by Zach S.
-
Introducing DNS64 and NAT64 for the Cross-Cloud Network! 🎉 Together, DNS64 and NAT64 form a robust mechanism that intelligently translates…
Introducing DNS64 and NAT64 for the Cross-Cloud Network! 🎉 Together, DNS64 and NAT64 form a robust mechanism that intelligently translates…
Liked by Zach S.
-
Preview launch of Zonal Affinity for GKE Internal Network passthrough load balancers (L4 ILB) https://lnkd.in/dipZhQ-K
Preview launch of Zonal Affinity for GKE Internal Network passthrough load balancers (L4 ILB) https://lnkd.in/dipZhQ-K
Liked by Zach S.
-
Last year, contact center agents and AI tools influenced $60 billion in sales during Cyber Week, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the revenue…
Last year, contact center agents and AI tools influenced $60 billion in sales during Cyber Week, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the revenue…
Liked by Zach S.
-
Boost your networking chops and build resilient applications! 🚀 Dive into our latest whitepapers on TCP retransmissions, the impact of headers and…
Boost your networking chops and build resilient applications! 🚀 Dive into our latest whitepapers on TCP retransmissions, the impact of headers and…
Liked by Zach S.
Other similar profiles
Explore more posts
-
Andreas Baekdahl
Just because AI can generate network automation scripts doesn’t mean you should run them in production. There’s been a big shift lately. Engineers are using large language models to build their first scripts, often without fully understanding what the code does. And I get it. When you’re under pressure to automate, and tools like ChatGPT promise working solutions in seconds, it’s easy to take the shortcut. But infrastructure is not a sandbox. Network automation touches the systems we rely on every day. It connects services, businesses, and controls how data flows securely across organizations. One wrong line of code can take down more than just a lab environment. Out of curiosity, I’ve tested this myself. I took some of the workbook tasks from my Masterclass and asked an LLM to solve them. What happened: → Some scripts looked okay at first glance, but missed key context. → Others skipped important validation steps or made incorrect assumptions. → Most gave answers that were confidently wrong (with zero indication anything was off). None of them would pass the DevNet Expert Lab exam. And more importantly, I wouldn’t run any of them in production. AI will play a growing role in how we work. It already is. But if you can’t evaluate the code it gives you (if you don’t understand what it does and why) then you’re not automating. You’re just delegating blindly. Code will be written once and read countless times. Make sure you can read and not just write. Automation is a skill and like all skills, it’s only valuable if you understand the consequences of what you’re doing. Especially when the network is involved. If you're aiming to sharpen both your tooling and your thinking, the next Masterclass starts August 19.
9 Comments
Explore top content on LinkedIn
Find curated posts and insights for relevant topics all in one place.
View top content