Buck Wallander

Director of Engineering

Austin, Texas, United States21 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable infrastructure solutions.
Proven leadership in cloud and network engineering.
CCIE certified with extensive industry experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and Network Engineering expert with a focus on autonomous vehicle technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingInfrastructure As A Service (iaas)

Other Skills

Network EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringEngineering LeadershipNetwork ArchitectureData Center InfrastructureLeadershipData CenterVPNNetwork SecurityInfrastructureMPLSDNSVirtualizationIPServers

About

‣ Design, build and scale critical infrastructure ‣ Weird problem aficionado ‣ CCIE #27123

Experience

21 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

General motors

Director, AV Core Infrastructure

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Austin, TX

I lead the cloud compute, network, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) foundational engineering teams enabling vehicle autonomy at GM.

Cloud ComputingNetwork EngineeringInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Cruise

3 roles

Director, Global Networks

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

Principal Engineer & TLM, Production Networks

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs

Senior Staff Engineer & TLM, Production Networks

Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs

Rackspace

Network Solutions Architect

Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs · Austin, Texas Area

Cloudflare, inc.d

Network Engineer

Dec 2013 – Sep 2014 · 9 mos · San Francisco, CA

Apigee

Cloud Engineering Lead

Aug 2013 – Dec 2013 · 4 mos

Salesforce.com

Network Engineer

Jan 2013 – Aug 2013 · 7 mos · San Francisco, CA

Rackspace

3 roles

Network Engineer

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr

Network Security Escalations Engineer

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

Network Security Administrator III

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr

The planet

4 roles

Network Security Engineer

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr

Linux Systems Engineer

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

Security Engineer, Level 2

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

NOC Engineer

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr

Education

Midwestern State University

(attended) Computer Science

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004

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