Tony Mattke

Tony Mattke is a network engineer and infrastructure architect with over 25 years of experience across ISPs, data centers, financial institutions, manufacturing, and consulting. He currently works as an Infrastructure Architect at RedEye Network Solutions, where he’s happily returned to his networking roots after a multi-year stint leading security strategy and architecture for a global manufacturer.

Tony’s been working on networks since 1999, started on Linux in 1994, and switched to Mac in 2008 after over a decade of proving he could daily-drive Linux and zero years of enjoying it. He considers his “jack of all trades” tendencies and CS background to be the keys to his career, and his inability to stop picking up new hobbies to be an ongoing personal challenge. When he’s not buried in CLI output, he’s either at the drag strip with his truck, wrenching on said truck, or writing checks to fix said truck. At home in northern Indiana, he lives with his wife Jessi, his daughter Lily (who is too smart for her own good), a Bernedoodle, a Mini-Goldendoodle, and a Newfoundland with two brain cells fighting for third place. He technically still blogs at RouterJockey.com, though the word “occasionally” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

Tony Mattke will join us as a delegate at Networking Field Day 40 on April 8, 2026!