Claudia de Luna

After graduating from Stanford University, Claudia started working for NASA JPL initially in software development and then moving into enterprise networking. In 2006, she left JPL and worked in several verticals, including biotech and financial. In 2015, while working for one of the largest Cisco VARs, she began automating network workflows. Today, she works for a boutique consulting firm, Enterprise Infrastructure Acceleration, Inc., helping Fortune 100 companies deploy network and security programs at speed.

Network automation truths... so far...

1 – Automation will not replace network engineers

Make no mistake, the discipline of network engineering is not going anywhere. How we interact with devices is amid revolution to be sure, but the knowledge of how a TCP three-way handshake takes place or how a routing protocol works is, and will continue to be, essential. In fact, the depth of this knowledge will likely increase as scripting networking workflows...