Nico Vibert is a Principal Engineer at Isovalent, the company behind the open-source cloud-native solution Cilium. Prior to joining Isovalent, Nico held many different roles (operations and support, design and architecture, technical pre-sales) at companies such as HashiCorp, VMware, and Cisco. In his current role, Nico focuses primarily on creating content to make networking a more approachable field and regularly speaks at events like KubeCon and Cisco Live. Nico has held over 15 networking certifications, including the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE (# 22990). Nico is the co-author of the Cilium: Up and Running O’Reilly book and is the Lead Subject Matter Expert on the Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) certification.