Design-Driven Automation for IT & Network Leaders
Discover how design-driven automation transforms network operations at scale. This workshop, tailored for IT and networking leaders, focuses on the business and operational benefits of adopting a design-driven automation approach. Learn how standardized, repeatable designs simplify deployment across data centers, branch offices, retail, and logistics sites while reducing risk and accelerating time to value. See how a design-driven approach streamlines the full lifecycle from design to deployment to validation. Perfect for decision-makers seeking strategic insights into how design-driven automation delivers consistency, agility, and confidence across complex enterprise networks.
You’ll walk through demonstrations of:
- Development of a deployment design using Nautobot Design Builder
- Populating the Source of Truth (SoT) with the design
- Automated provisioning with Golden Config into a digital twin for testing
- Change validation with NUTS (Network Unit Testing System) test bundles
Tim Fiola is a former network engineer, a published author, and an automation advocate. His career is driven by a passion for solving operational challenges through automation. After witnessing the burdens of manual toil and network data overload on network engineers, Tim started automating in 2009. He has since become a vocal advocate for using automation to eliminate network engineering toil and to process complex data into actionable insights. Removing these burdens from network engineers empowers them to focus on high-value engineering work.
Tim’s credibility is built on years of hands-on experience developing production-grade automation. This deep technical expertise is paired with his business acumen, honed during his years as a Sales Engineer advising enterprises on how to solve their core challenges with automation. He actively contributes to the engineering community by authoring insightful blog posts and creating open-source tools, including a simulator for WAN network failures that helps build more resilient systems. He is the author of two books: This Week: Deploying MPLS; Day One: Navigating the Junos XML Hierarchy
Peter has over 20 years of networking and infrastructure engineering experience working in large enterprises. While never shy from a whiteboard, Peter loves architecting solutions across technology domains and managing communication with senior stakeholders. Before joining Network to Code, Peter was at McKinsey & Company serving as a Senior Enterprise Architect where he managed the Network Automation, Application Delivery, and Identity and Access Management teams. Peter holds a BE in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University.
