About

<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>AI Infrastructure & Enterprise Platform Architect · Washington, D.C.</strong></p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">For over 20 years I’ve designed and operated the infrastructure layer beneath large systems — networks, platforms, and the security that holds them together. Today I focus on the problems specific to running AI at scale: routing inference traffic across regions, segmenting workloads with Zero Trust, seeing into the kernel with eBPF, and keeping expensive accelerators fed and reachable.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">I work across the full stack of the part users never see: BGP and enterprise routing, IPv6, high-performance and multi-region networking, service meshes, eBPF, cloud networking, Zero-Trust platform security, and AI inference networking.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">What I care about</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Architectures that survive contact with production — not diagrams that only work on slides.</li> <li>Networks and platforms that are fast, secure, and global by design.</li> <li>Making complex infrastructure legible: clear trade-offs, honest failure modes.</li> </ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Connect</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vkafed/">LinkedIn</a> · <a href="https://github.com/initv0">GitHub</a> · <a href="/contact/">Contact</a></p>