Network Automation Nerds Podcast

Today on the show, we will continue our conversation with Andy Champagne, SVP & CTO of Akamai Labs at Akamai Technologies. Andy has been in the industry since the early 1990s. His early work focused on network engineering and architecture for regional ISP.  Since joining Akamai in 2000, Andy has held various engineering and product leadership roles.  In part two of this episode, we will contin...

Today on the show, we will talk to Andy Champagne, SVP & CTO of Akamai Labs at Akamai Technologies. Andy has been in the industry since the early 1990s. His early work focused on network engineering and architecture for regional ISP.  Since joining Akamai in 2000, Andy has held various engineering and product leadership roles.  In part one of this episode, I talk to Andy about his origin story...

Hello Network Automation Nerds! Today on the show, we will be talking to Ratul Mahajan, co-founder and CEO of Intentionet. Ratul is also an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, where he teaches courses on Computer Systems and Networking.  Prior to co-founding Intentionet, Ratul was a long-time researcher at Microsoft Research on subjects such as networking, distributed systems, and...

Today on the show, I am excited to welcome Jeremy Schulman, a.k.a. Network Automaniac. Jeremy is the Principal Software Engineer at Major League Baseball, where he leads the digital transformation for their network infrastructure.  People in the network engineering circle might be familiar with his work at Juniper as the originator of PyEZ. Jeremy is also not shy about sharing his knowledge with t...

In this episode, I talked to Alex Saroyan about his network engineering journey, automation opportunities, founding Netris, and scaling up its operations. Netris wants to let you run your network with a cloud-like experience by creating NetOps software for your private cloud. The use cases include hybrid/private cloud, on-premise Kubernetes, Edge computing, and many more.  In this episode, Alex ta...

Hello and welcome to a new episode of the Network Automation Nerds podcast! In this episode, I welcome my good friend Jaime Botello to talk about network automation in the gaming industry. Long gone are the days of putting a disk into a console to play games, we now play AAA games on our mobile devices, internet-connected consoles, and just about every screen you can imagine. It is not often we ge...

Today on the show, we will be talking to Ken Celenza, VP of Professional Services at Network to Code. If you have been following this podcast, you know we have already had several guests from NTC on this show, including the founder Jason Edelman. Ken is employee #1 at Network to Code, joined about a year after Jason bootstrapped the company and it has been a heck of a ride.  Don't be fooled b...

Today on the show, we will be talking to Jaime Buelta. Jaime is the author of Python Automation Cookbook , Python Architecture Patterns , Docker for Microservices with Python , and currently works as SDE at Amazon.  Jaime talked to us about how he got started with Python, his experience with the different developer roles, using Python for automation tasks, and some of the design patterns when codi...

In this episode, I have the distinct honor to welcome Dinesh Dutt to the show. Dinesh is the author of one of my favorite Data Center Networking books, ‘Cloud Native Data Center Networking’, by O’Reilly Media. He served as Chief Scientist at Cumulus Networks, was a Fellow at Cisco Systems, co-author of TRILL and VxLAN, and has filed for over 40 patents. In the last few years, Dinesh has been spend...

Today on the episode we will be talking to Daren Fulwell, Network Automation Evangelist at IP Fabric. Daren is CCDE2015::41, CCIE 20443, member of the CCIE Advisory Council, host of #Init6, and my fellow Cisco Champion for the last few years. With so much experience under his belt, in my opinion, Daren has his pick in whatever field he would choose to work on in network engineering. I asked Daren...

Do you want to learn, grow, and elevate your life and career in I.T.? Du'An Lightfoot, creator of the #LabEveryday is here to help. As Du'An would say, "We focus on enjoying the experience of learning, growing, and helping others as we go", he is here to do just that in this episode. In this episode, Du'An talks about his background, his start in technology, his struggles...

If you have even a slight interest in network automation, you must have heard of Ansible. Ansible is a modern, YAML-based automation tool built on top of the popular Python programming language. In this episode, we will be talking to James Freeman, co-author of Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition. James is an accomplished IT consultant with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry with ma...

Today on the show, we will be talking to Daniel Teycheney . Daniel is based out of Melbourne Australia and works as a network automation engineer. If you have been following Daniel on Twitter or his blog, you would be amazed at the amount of quality content he has been producing.  Besides all the written contents, the last time I checked out Daniel’s GitHub page, as an open-source project maintain...

In this episode, I welcome back Stuart Clark to talk about this personal career journey which has taken from being a hairdresser for 14 years all the way to Senior Developer Advocate at Cisco. It is a story of lifelong learning, hard work, and a can-do attitude. On a personal note, Stu has been a big supporter of my own career. He was one of the first people I asked to be on the show because I fin...

Today on the show, we will be talking to Adam Byczkowski from Network to Code about code testing in network automation. This is an important topic that is often overlooked in Network Automation, especially if we are just getting our feet wet in the space.  I was very happy to see Adam wrote about code testing in the network automation space via a 3-part blog series. I invited Adam on the show to t...

Today on the show, we will be talking to Jason Belk. Jason is currently working as a Sr. Technical Advocate in the Learning and Certifications Team. Prior to that role, he worked as a Cisco NSO Developer Evangelist. He has always been passionate about customer experience, community growth, and drive awareness for network automation.  Jason and I will dive into his personal journey on network autom...

Today on the show, we will be talking to Jason Gooley, technical evangelist, author, speaker, philanthropist, founder and host of Metal DevOps. Jason is also known as ‘The God Father of Network Automation’ within the Cisco circle.  Besides all of the accomplishments, the most striking thing about Jason is his positive attitude and a strong bias for action.  Jason is a prolific reader and I am some...

Today on the show, we will be talking to my friend Rick Donato. Rick is a big community contributor in the area of network automation. After several years of working in the industry, Rick went on to found a network automation education start-up, Packt Coders . Packet Coders is a place where people can learn network automation through code, labs, and community. As you can tell, Network Automation i...

Python has one of the most open, inclusive, diverse, and welcoming communities you can find. In this episode, we will be talking to two of the top community organizers, Don Sheu and Brian Ray. Don was the co-founder of Pudget Sound Programming Python ( PuPPY ) and PyCascade (Regional Python conference in the Pacific Northwest) and Entrepreneur. Brian was founder of ChiPy (Chicago Python User Group...

In this episode, we talk to Jonathan Carter ( https://twitter.com/LostInTangent ), Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, about one of the coolest feature of Visual Studio Code, Live Share. Visual Studio Live Share enables multiple engineers to quickly collaborate with a friend, colleague, or customer on the same code base without needing a complex set up or copy-paste the code to an external sit...

In this episode, we will be talking to Anton Karneliuk ( Team Karneiuk ) about the work he has done in network engineering, book authoring, network development, network automation, and his interesting journey into computers. Anton is an IT and Network Expert and Entrepreneur. He is 2x CCIE (#49412 R&S, SP), co-author of Cisco Press book Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals , and...

In this episode, we welcome Tushar Gupta, Senior Book Producer from Packt Publishing. Tushar and I aggregated questions from social media about technical book publishing and answered them in this Q&A live stream session on LinkedIn Live and YouTube. We converted this episode to a podcast format and delivered it right to your earbuds for your listening pleasure. I had a lot of fun talking about...

In this episode, we talked to Jason Edelman , founder and CTO of Network to Code , about his journey in network engineering, network automation, computer networking, and the startup founder experience. Back in 2014, Jason founded one of the hottest and most successful network automation startup, Network to Code ( https://www.networktocode.com/about/ ). They have been helping companies transform th...

Have you thought about learning Python for network automation? Do you wonder what are some of the Python learning resources out there available for learning? In this episode, we modified the YouTube Live Streaming session between myself and Carl Montanari, long-time network automation practitioner and creator of Scrapli, on different resources available for learning Python for Network Automation....

In this episode, we welcome a fellow content creator and prolific community contributor, Julio Perez!  Julio is an active community contributor, always willing to lend a helping hand. Recently he completed a six part blog series about his experience in building a network continuous integration / continuous deployment, or CI/CD, pipeline. In this episode, we will be diving deep into the CI/CD pipel...