Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals

About Anton KarneliukJeff DoyleKhaled AbuelenainVinit Jain

Khaled Abuelenain CCIE No. 27401 (R&S SP) is currently the Consulting Director at Acuative a Cisco Managed Services Master Partner. Khaled has spent the past 18 years designing implementing operating and automating networks and clouds. He specializes in service provider technologies SD-WAN data center technologies programmability automation and cloud architectures. Khaled is especially interested in Linux and OpenStack. Khaled is a contributing author of the best-selling Cisco Press book Routing TCP/IP Volume II 2nd edition by Jeff Doyle. He also blogs frequently on network programmability and automation on blogs.cisco.com. Khaled is also a member of the DevNet500 group being one of the first 500 individuals in the world to become DevNet certified. Khaled lives in Riyadh Saudi Arabia and when not working or writing he likes to run marathons and skydive. He can be reached at kabuelenain@gmail.com on Twitter at @kabuelenain or on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/kabuelenain. Jeff Doyle CCIE No. 1919 is a Member of Technical Staff at Apstra. Specializing in IP routing protocols complex BGP policy SDN/NFV data center fabrics IBN EVPN MPLS and IPv6 Jeff has designed or assisted in the design of large-scale IP and IPv6 service provider networks in 26 countries over 6 continents. Jeff is the author of CCIE Professional Development: Routing TCP/IP Volumes I and II and OSPF and IS-IS: Choosing an IGP for Large-Scale Networks; a co-author of Software-Defined Networking: Anatomy of OpenFlow; and an editor and contributing author of Juniper Networks Routers: The Complete Reference. Jeff is currently writing CCIE Professional Development: Switching TCP/IP. He also writes for Forbes and blogs for both Network World and Network Computing. Jeff is one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force is an IPv6 Forum Fellow and serves on the executive board of the Colorado chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC). Anton Karneliuk CCIE No. 49412 (R&S SP) is a Network Engineer and Manager at THG Hosting responsible for the development operation and automation of networks in numerous data centers across the globe and the international backbone. Prior to joining THG Anton was a team lead in Vodafone Group Network Engineering and Delivery focusing on introduction of SDN and NFV projects in Germany. Anton has 15 years of extensive experience in design rollout operation and optimization of large-scale service providers and converged networks focusing on IP/MPLS BGP network security and data center Clos fabrics built using EVPN/VXLAN. He also has several years of full-stack software development experience for network management and automation. Anton holds a B.S. in telecommunications and an M.S. in information security from Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio Electronics. You can find him actively blogging about network automation and running online training at Karneliuk. com. Anton lives with his wife in London. Vinit Jain CCIE No. 22854 (R&S SP Security & DC) is a Network Development Engineer at Amazon managing the Amazon network backbone operations team. Previously he worked as a technical leader with the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) providing escalation support in routing and data center technologies. Vinit is a speaker at various networking forums including Cisco Live! events. He has co-authored several Cisco Press titles such as Troubleshooting BGP and Troubleshooting Cisco Nexus Switches and NX-OS LISP Network Deployment and Troubleshooting and has authored and co-authored several video courses including BGP Troubleshooting the CCNP DCCOR Complete Video Course and the CCNP ENCOR Complete Video Course. In addition to his CCIEs Vinit holds multiple certifications related to programming and databases. Vinit graduated from Delhi University in mathematics and earned a masters in information technology from Kuvempu University in India. Vinit can be found on Twitter as @VinuGenie.