Jason is a Distinguished Engineer in Cisco's Developer Relations team. His role is to lead technical strategy in aligning with our developer community in internal and external advocacy.
His career has involved providing strategic and tactical consulting for hundreds of customers. Jason's primary expertise areas are in Network Management Systems, Automation & Orchestration, Virtualization, Data Center Operations, Software Defined Networking, Programmability and IoT.
Since joining Cisco in 1998, he has been a frequent speaker at Cisco's Networkers and CiscoLive conferences in the US and Europe. Jason is a CiscoLive Distinguished Speaker and was identified as a Hall of Fame speaker in 2020. For the past 13 years he has also been involved in the Cisco Live NOC network setup and monitoring.
Jason is a sought-after resource for providing automation, orchestration and programmability insights.
See how we transformed an empty conference venue into the showcase we intend, while also extracting the embedded telemetry and instrumentation in our products through using open source and ‘made to spec’ programs.
Wireless networking technology has seen lots of change over the years. Check out 10 years of wireless network stats progression (and Cisco Live customer appreciation event hats). Watch the video.
Are you interested in using your programming, API, database, and visualization skills in a new way with networking, but need product insight to know what’s impactful?... See how we used DevOps fundamentals in the CiscoLive Network Operations Center (NOC).
When we put that developer hat on as part of our DevOps/SRE or AppDev roles, it’s optimal when we can combine our code development environment (IDE) with a tool we take notes in. Take a look at how the Dendron extension to VS Code allows for hierarchical documentation and note-taking.
A lot of tech goes into serving an event like Cisco Live, and the DevNet Network Operations Center (NOC) team is ready to show it off. See how using gRPC and NETCONF YANG models allows the team to focus on the instrumentation and telemetry.
Learn how the Open Policy Agent (OPA) helps organizations realize the benefits of standardized authorization policy management, and scale it for the enterprise without having to spend the time and resources building from scratch.
Learn how you can leverage more complex filtering and forwarding to optimize bandwidth usage and provide an option to maintain local switch-container copies of event messages.
Learn about Cisco ThousandEyes, a SaaS solution for monitoring availability, latency, loss, and user experience with your web-based application in a distributed environment.