2015 – present

F5

The application delivery company, and the platform taught most on this site.

Worked with directly, 2015 – presentRed Education partnerauthorized instructor

F5 is the deepest chapter of the whole record: a decade that runs from a first administrator certification through the full specialist ladder to the instructor's chair, three DevCentral MVP years, and the flagship hub of this site.

The certification ladder

The chapter opens in 2015 with the F5 Certified Administrator, earned while distributing the platform commercially. The specialist ladder followed: Certified Technology Specialist in LTM, DNS, ASM, and APM, then the two solution-expert peaks, F5-CSE Cloud (2021) and F5-CSE Security (2022). Climbing every module of BIG-IP one exam at a time is exactly the preparation a full-time instructor needs, and that is where it led.

The instructor's chair and DevCentral

F5 Authorized Instructor since 2020, delivering twelve official BIG-IP and TMOS courses, from administration fundamentals through LTM, DNS, ASM/AWAF, APM, iRules, and troubleshooting. F5's DevCentral community named Rodolfo an MVP three consecutive years, 2022 through 2024. On this site, F5 is the flagship: the largest vendor hub, with calculators, decoders, and explainers built for the same engineers who sit in those classes.

What it certified

F5 Authorized Instructor (since 2020). Current certifications: F5-CSE Security, F5-CSE Cloud, F5-CTS LTM / DNS / ASM / APM, F5-CA. DevCentral MVP 2022, 2023, 2024. Full detail on the credentials page.

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The company was founded in 1996. This page covers only the years worked with it.