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
An Open Letter to Representative Summer Lee
7 November 2026
Dear Representative Lee: I’m writing to express my heartfelt congratulations for your re-election. Fact is, while it wasn’t going to take a blue tsunami to return you to the House1, it is a nice circumstance. And I was definitely going to vote for you anyway: one of the advantages of it having been Squirrel Hill that I left for Zürich-Höngg eighteen years ago is that I’m frozen in time in the 14th Ward of Pittsburgh for electoral purposes. …
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