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I started my career in the mid-90s doing university campus networking and Solaris systems administration, then moved to working for one of the original commercial internet service providers (CERFnet) in the US. Since the late 90s I’ve worked for a number of startups typically starting or growing their EMEA presence.
I’m a big believer that values matter, both in personal and professional life. Company culture matters and must be constantly fostered. Team leadership means enabling, mentoring, teaching, communicating, and supporting, then getting out of the way. Hire the right person, not necessarily the right skillset, and help them thrive and become leaders themselves. Encourage diversity in people and views.
NetUK1 London 2024-07-09
On Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 I will be presenting a talk at NetUK1.
Blurb
Design-Driven Infrastructure Automation
Abstract
Building and managing Infrastructure has always been driven by architecture and design but surprisingly these concepts aren’t easy to integrate into the toolset that makes it possible to manage networks and infrastructure in general with automation.
In this presentation we’ll discuss how to manage a network with a Design first approach, based on Infrahub a new open-source Infrastructure management platform.
NetDevOps Days New York City 2023-10-26
On Thursday, October 26th, 2023 I co-presented a talk at NetDevOps Days NYC along with Jerrod Gerth at Nokia.
Blurb
Test it first! Taking a DevOps approach to network labs.
Abstract
This joint talk from IP Fabric and Nokia will cover the “why” and “how” of building software-based network labs suitable for learning, testing, and validating changes. It will include discussion of:
- Theory: Why are network labs needed? A discussion of network simulation options and the use cases it can solve
- Real world: How to use Containerlab for network labs
Presentation
Presentation-as-code generated via marp and stored in GitLab: netdevops-days-2023-10
NetDevOps Days London - YouTube Recording
On Friday, June 30th, 2023 I gave a talk at NetDevOps Days London on Explaining the business value of network automation - Or why I succeeded the second time around. The YouTube video recording is embedded below: