Brian Trammell
Scientist, Synthesist, Cyclist, SREI’m an American-Swiss geek of several trades living in Wallisellen, Switzerland. I’m a proud father, unrepentant pedestrian supremacist, recovering security person, and scientist with interests in Internet architecture, Internet measurement, and the evolution of the Internet general and Internet protocols specifically, especially at Layer 4. I’m active in the IETF, IRTF, and have been recently appointed as a Trustee of the Internet Society.
My day job is in Site Reliability Engineering at Google in Zürich, where I don’t work in networking for a change.
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As should go without saying on a website named after me, the opinions here are my own and do not represent the views of any organization with which I’m affiliated.
Latest Post
Zwei Autonarben
29 June 2026
For the next decade or so, the southern edge of my small home city on the north side of Zürich will be a complex linear construction site, after which we’ll have a segment of a bicycle highway between Zürich and the upper Glatt Valley, and a mostly-brand-new train station with two additional platforms connecting to a new tunnel straight to Winterthur. This is great. But in the meantime, that complex linear construction site has been placed directly over what used to be my bicycle commute, which gave me the opportunity to find a new one. …
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