Daniel Hertzberg

Daniel is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Arista Networks. He’s been working within this field for double-digit years and has always had one foot in the door of networking and one foot in the door of automation/programmability. He writes Go on Visual Studio Code multiple times per week because of his success with network automation, cloud-native technologies, and OpenConfig.

I started off my automation not with network devices but with network overlays and network security with VMware NSX. NSX provides way too many options to click on to break the system. The same way that a network person could make a mistake and fat-finger a switch made it really easy for me to enter the same OSPF router ID within the same network... whoops! This was a REST API built with XML as an encoding and used Python requests to talk to it. At the time, most were using PowerShell to make this work, so even Python in this community was way outside the barriers of normalcy...