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