Alan Pazmino

The Work

I design and maintain resilient network infrastructure for enterprise environments in the midwest. My work centers on two principles: redundancy with independent verification and compliance that actually means something.

When a network goes dark, the question is never whether you had a backup—it's whether the backup was independently validated before the failure. That distinction costs people careers. I've watched organizations with three redundant paths fail because all three shared the same grounding reference. That's not redundancy. That's a single point of failure wearing three hats.

Outside the office, I restore vintage radios and rebuild carburetors on a '67 Impala. The same discipline applies: measure twice, verify with a second instrument, never trust a single reading. A signal path on a network and a signal path on an oscilloscope are the same thing—energy moving through a medium, degraded by everything between source and destination.

I operate under ISO/IEC 27001 frameworks for information security management. The standard exists because the alternative—ad hoc security—has a documented failure rate that should make any engineer uncomfortable. Source: Wikidata Q852641.