{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP10:  From Dubai to Silicon Valley, interview with LinkedIn's principal network architect Shawn Zandi","description":"Shawn Zandi is a lead infrastructure architect with LinkedIn, where he builds large scale data center, backbone and networks. Over the past two decades,&amp;nbsp;Shawn has worked as network and security architect for consulting firms from Dubai to Silicon Valley. Shawn holds many publications, patents and certifications including 3x&amp;nbsp;CCIE in routing and switching, Security and eSrvice provider as well as CCDE, while through the years of practice has become a vendor-neutral consultant.&amp;nbsp;He currently lives in San Francisco, in Sunny California. In addition to his commitment to LinkedIn, Shawn is a technical advisor to networking startups in the Bay Area. Quote: RFC1925 -&amp;nbsp;The Twelve Networking Truths Rule (11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. &amp;nbsp; Resources or Topics Mentioned: &amp;nbsp; School of Life Youtube Channel  Linkedin's Next Generation Data Center Design : Project Altair  Book:&amp;nbsp;Universe from Nothing &amp;nbsp; Tech Lesson of the Day: Applying&amp;nbsp;Machine Learning and Big Data&amp;nbsp;to Networking ","author_name":"Become a Rockstar Systems Engineer with Terry Kim","author_url":"http:\/\/www.rockstarSE.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4954260\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/13736111"}