SDWAN network refresh
Led redesign of a multi-locations across the globe, reducing failure domains and cutting change-window risk.
The practice
About Shawn Brothers
A focused network architecture consultancy for teams that need senior judgment—not a revolving door of junior tickets.
Built for reliability at scale
Shawn Brothers advises engineering and infrastructure leaders on how to design networks that remain understandable as they grow. Our work spans enterprise campuses, multi-site WANs, data center fabrics, and hybrid cloud edges—always with an eye toward what the on-call engineer will face at 2 a.m.
Engagements are hands-on and outcome-oriented: architecture packages you can hand to implementation partners, automation that survives the first reorg, and audits that name risks without burying them in jargon.
We partner with small and mid-market organizations across finance, healthcare, SaaS, and industrial environments—anywhere downtime is measured in reputation as much as revenue.
Experience that shows up in the design
Selected patterns from past engagements—details anonymized for client confidentiality.
Meraki network replacement
Led the redesign of an aging network with multiple different vendors into a uniform network making it easier to manage
Website Refresh
Updated a website that wasn't getting much traffic or customer engagement
Philosophy: reliability & scalability
Reliability first
Beautiful diagrams that fail under maintenance are not architecture. We design for graceful degradation, clear blast-radius limits, and operational visibility—so incidents stay incidents, not outages.
Scalability with intent
Scale is not “more boxes.” It is addressing plans, routing policy, automation, and team processes that still make sense at 10× growth. We leave you with patterns you can reuse—not a one-off snowflake.