A security QA/engineering department needed to stand up, modify, and tear down complex network configurations for global rollout — but manual reconfiguration was slow, error‑prone, and blocked release velocity.

Designed and created SWITCHBOARD, a system to dynamically build and rebuild network configurations for test environments—safe, fast, and repeatable.

• Standardized offerings including physical connections and configurations
• Defined topology templates and parameterized configs for routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Automated push/rollback to lab devices with snapshot/restore and versioned change sets.
• Integrated with scripts to provision ephemeral labs for test suites.
• Added traffic generation & capture/analysis for performance and failure‑mode testing.

• Cut environment setup and change time from days to minutes.
• Increased test coverage and repeatability; reduced configuration errors.
• Enabled rapid experimentation with complex topologies and policies.

Faster release cycles with lower lab costs and higher engineer productivity; reduced risk from configuration mistakes in pre‑prod, reducing time to validate configurations by 98%, from multiple weeks to hours.

Turned networking into infrastructure as code for QA—enabling safe iteration and scale while improving product quality and speed.