Jason Belk is a Lead Technical Advocate based in Reno, Nevada. He lives with his wife, Erin, and their adorable black Labrador dog. His years spent supporting the network operations as a network engineer in the Cisco Corporate Campus and Branch network created a passion for helping network engineers adopt the new skills and concepts needed for network programmability and automation. While in Cisco IT, Jason learned the power and beauty of Cisco NSO and subsequently built tutorials, blogs and demos to share that experience with others. Most recently, he was a Network Automation Trainer and Consultant at Network to Code, teaching in-person classes for network operators to learn the basics of Python and Ansible.