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
Four Reconstructions
22 June 2026
As a left-leaning white kid who grew up in what turned out to be a dying Southern city, going from a fully-integrated Montessori elementary school in a neighborhood named after the white flight it later suffered to an East Memphis middle school whose history includes a massive expansion of its boarding program for Little Rock families resisting integration in the 1960s, I’m exactly the type of person you’d expect to point to the premature end of Reconstruction with the Compromise of 1877 as the point at which it All Went Wrong. …
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