Jeremy Johnson's career spans the full arc of commercial networking, from helping build the infrastructure that became the internet, to founding a routing software company that was acquired, to managing the networking product strategy for one of the world's most complex cloud networks.
He has designed carrier-grade networks, operated high-scale consumer internet infrastructure, built IoT network architecture for grid-connected devices at a company acquired by Itron, managed the aftermath of serious security incidents, and spent years inside Google Cloud Platform understanding how its network model actually works, not as an outside observer, but as the person responsible for its networking product strategy.
That combination of depth, across carriers, startups, enterprise operations, and inside one of the top cloud platforms, is what his advisory practice is built on. Clients don't get a consultant who has read the documentation. They get someone who has made these decisions under real conditions, at real scale, and learned from what went wrong as much as what went right.
The practice is deliberately small. Jeremy works with a limited number of clients at a time so that every engagement gets his direct attention, not a team of associates with Jeremy's name on the proposal.
"I've designed carrier-grade networks, built and sold a routing company, operated infrastructure through a major security incident, designed IoT networks at scale, and managed networking product strategy for one of the world's largest cloud platforms. I've also watched infrastructure decisions that seemed reasonable at the time create serious problems two years later. That pattern recognition is what I bring to every engagement."
— JEREMY JOHNSON
| Organization | Role | What it contributes |
|---|---|---|
| AT&T CERFnet | Infrastructure engineering on the early commercial internet | Carrier-grade network design and operations · BGP routing at scale · the infrastructure disciplines that predate cloud but still underpin it |
| NetVMG | Founder, route control software (acquired by Internap) | Built a company from scratch whose product solved IP routing problems at scale · understands what it takes to get infrastructure technology into production at enterprise customers |
| SilverSpring Networks | IoT network architecture | Designed network architecture for grid-connected devices at large scale · edge-to-cloud infrastructure · the security considerations specific to devices that can't be patched easily |
| Sony Online Entertainment | High-scale consumer internet infrastructure | Internet infrastructure at consumer gaming scale · direct experience managing a major security incident and rebuilding security posture afterward · security as an operational discipline, not a compliance exercise |
| Excite@Home | Early broadband and CDN infrastructure | Operated infrastructure through significant business stress · the infrastructure decisions that hold under pressure and the ones that don't · what early CDN and broadband architecture taught about network design at scale |
| Google Cloud Platform | Networking Product Strategy, Product Manager | Managed GCP's networking product strategy from inside Google · understands how GCP's network fabric was designed, where its constraints are, and how its architecture will evolve · the perspective that no external consultant can have |
Large consulting firms propose senior partners and deliver junior associates. Jeremy engages directly with every client. The person you meet is the person who does the work.
GCP implementation partners execute work. Jeremy's role is to make sure the architectural decisions that guide that work are correct, before engineers spend months building something that will need to be rebuilt.
No external GCP advisor has the same vantage point. Managing networking product strategy inside Google isn't the same as studying GCP's architecture documentation, it's knowing why the decisions were made and where the edges of the design are.
Jeremy has been a cloud customer (as a founder and operator) and a cloud builder (inside Google). He has seen these problems from both directions, which is a different kind of insight than pure practitioner experience.
A focused 90-minute diagnostic for $1,000. Jeremy reviews your environment in advance, then leads a structured conversation about where things stand and what's worth addressing first. Most people walk away with a clearer picture than they came in with, regardless of what happens next.
Book Your Clarity SessionJeremy works with a small number of clients at a time. Availability is limited.
