Blog awards and prizes
2024 Cisco Live US Blogging Contest
One of the winners of the 2024 pre-Cisco Live blogging contest:
2023 Cisco Live US Blogging Contest
3rd place at the 2023 pre-Cisco Live blogging contest:
2022 Cisco Live US Blogging Contest
2nd place at the 2022 pre-Cisco Live blogging contest:
IT Blog Awards
The IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco, aim to celebrate and recognize independent technology content creators for the inspirational and educational blogs, podcasts, and videos that are created throughout the year.
Top-50 winner in the 2021 IT Blog Awards:
Selected four times as a finalist in the IT Blog Awards:
- In 2021, in the Best Blog category.

- In 2020 and 2019, in the Most Educational category – Share great tips, tricks, or how-to’s to help you learn something new or further your understanding on a topic.
- In 2018, in the Best Cert Study Journey category – provides useful insights into the need-to-knows throughout a certification study journey.

Citations and References
In addition to these awards, I am honored to have some of my articles quoted in other publications, for example:
2024
- Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 373, Oct. 2024
- Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 361, July 2024
- Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 345, March 2024
2023
- Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 298, March 2023
- Cisco White Paper: RoCE Storage Implementation over NX-OS VXLAN Fabrics.
- Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 289, January 2023
2022
- CSCS / ETH Zurich: Labor of Love: CSCS IT engineer reflects on yearly success of technical blog
2021
- Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 194, January 2021
2020
- Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 173, August 2020
- Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 144, January 2020






