AN ENGINEERING FIELD LAB / EST. 2026

Production networking.
AI infrastructure.
One engineering mindset.

Documenting the protocols, failure modes and operational details behind modern data center fabrics, high-performance networking and GPU infrastructure.

ROUTING / EVPN / AUTOMATIONRDMA / RoCEv2 / GPU OPS
SONiC + FRRBGP EVPN / VXLANRoCEv2 / RDMAKUBERNETESDCGM / TELEMETRY

01 / ENGINEERING FOCUS

Built to be tested.
Not just diagrammed.

From control-plane convergence to workload-level impact, the emphasis is reproducible tests and evidence.

01

Network SRE & Automation

Routing, BFD, EVPN/VXLAN, telemetry, fault injection and infrastructure changes delivered through version-controlled workflows.

SONiCGitLab CI/CDObservability
02

AI Fabric & RDMA

100GbE networking, RoCEv2, congestion signals and performance measurements, including the limitations surfaced by physical testing.

ConnectX-5RoCEv2ECN / PFC
03

GPU Ops & Kubernetes

GPU Operator workflows, device allocation, NVML-based simulation, DCGM metrics and operational visibility across Kubernetes.

KubernetesGPU OperatorPrometheus

02 / TECHNICAL WRITING

Field notes from
the lab.

Long-form technical articles are being prepared for publication, with architecture diagrams, commands, packet evidence and lessons learned.

FABRIC ARCHITECTUREIN PREPARATION

From Nexus to AI Fabrics: What Actually Changes When Ethernet Meets GPU Networking

AUTOMATIONIN PREPARATION

From Webhook to Production: GitLab CI/CD as the Network Source of Truth

INCIDENT ENGINEERINGIN PREPARATION

RoCEv2 Failure Testing: Congestion, Recovery and the Evidence That Matters

03 / ABOUT THE LAB

Deep network roots.
New infrastructure frontiers.

Pivot AI Lab brings an operations-first perspective from more than two decades in enterprise, telecommunications and data center networking into modern AI infrastructure engineering.

Every published technical claim should survive the same scrutiny as a production incident: documented configuration, measurable behavior and repeatable testing.

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