Welcome.
I have spent much of my career building and supporting monitoring, automation, and reporting tools in telecom environments. A lot of the useful lessons from that work never show up in vendor documentation, polished slide decks, or product demos. They come from the messy middle: bad data, incomplete visibility, manual workarounds, and the small technical fixes that make operations easier.
That is what I want to write about here.
I will also share personal projects when they are interesting enough to be worth showing. Some are technical, some are just practical, and some start because I got tired of doing the same thing by hand.
What to expect
Topics will include:
- Python automation for network operations - API integrations, reconciliation scripts, and small utilities that survive contact with production
- Observability platform notes - lessons from working with Dynatrace, SevOne, Splunk, and performance instrumentation in large networks
- Performance analytics - KPI design, ETL pipelines, active probing, and how to make technical data useful to more than one audience
- Service reliability - incident response, preventive automation, and the operational habits that keep things from drifting
Who this is for
Mostly network engineers, operations teams, and technical managers dealing with the same kinds of issues I have spent years working through.
If a post sparks a question, or if you are working through a similar problem, get in touch. I am always happy to talk shop.
- Stephane Belliveau, P.Eng.