Rob Shakir

Professionally: operating at the border of software and network engineering @google.com; network infrastructure geek.

Personally: creative dabbler in music, stencil, screenprinting, photography, design and cookery; endorphin seeker on skis and bicycles; strictly amateur oenophile.

All views expressed are my own, and art work is © its respective owner (myself if not otherwise noted)

Recent Posts


  1. Silence isn't OK: Black Lives Matter
  2. OpenConfig Public Projects
  3. Moving to Google Cloud Run
  4. Swing
  5. Cryptocurrencies
  6. Migration of Site to Hugo!
  7. OpenConfig and IETF YANG Models: Can they converge?
  8. Lecture at Ecole Polytechnique: Taking Network Management into the 21st Century
  9. OpenConfig Interfaces - Some Examples
  10. The right tool for the job: Choosing where to use RSVP-TE or SR.