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Stuart Clark

Senior Developer Advocate Of Community, AWS

Stuart Clark is a Developer Advocate, author for Cisco Press, and a Cisco Certified DevNet Expert #20220005. Stuart started his career as a hairdresser in 1990, and in 2008 he changed careers to become a network engineer. After cutting his teeth in network operations he moved to network projects and programs. After many years as a network engineer, Stuart became obsessed with network automation and joined Cisco DevNet as a Developer Advocate for network automation. Stuart contributed to the DevNet exams and was one of the SME teams that created, designed, and built the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert. Stuart has presented at over fifty external conferences and is a multi-time Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker covering topics on network automation and methodologies. Stuart lives in Lincoln England with his wife Natalie and their son Maddox, he plays guitar and rocks an impressive two-foot beard whilst drinking coffee. GitHub: http://github.com/bigevilbeard Learn more about Stuart's work on his Developer Advocate profile page.

Articles

November 18, 2020

DEVELOPER

Introduction to Programmability – Part 3

19 min read

In this 3rd and final part of the series, you will learn more about RESTful APIs; understand the relationship between HTTP, REST, and RESTful APIs; and see how to consume a RESTful API using Python.

November 30, 2020

DEVELOPER

Leverage the Power of the Python Community

3 min read

See how built-in Python library functions can save you coding time, and give you the performance and output quality you want.

October 22, 2020

DEVELOPER

New Job Roles Equal New Opportunities

3 min read

See how DevNet learning paths and certifications make it easier for network engineers to acquire and use new skills.

September 24, 2020

DEVELOPER

Introduction to Programmability – Part 2

17 min read

In this part of Khaled Abuelenain's series you'll learn about NETCONF and eXtensible Markup Language (XML).

September 16, 2020

DEVELOPER

Introduction to Programmability – Part 1

10 min read

Take your first step to a better understanding of network programmability and automation with author (and double CCIE) Khaled Abuelenain.

September 8, 2020

DEVELOPER

Using the New Cisco SD-WAN SDK

2 min read

See how the new Cisco SD-WAN SDK for Cisco vManage is used in automating the configuration and operation of Cisco SD-WAN deployments using Python. Experience the benefits of interacting with vManage programmatically.

August 31, 2020

DEVELOPER

How AppHosting Boosts WAN Performance for Remote Education

3 min read

Learn how the Cisco and NetBeez integration helps proactively detect network problems and efficiently troubleshoot remote end-user network performance, to make the shift to remote education easier. Free webinar, Sept 10th.

August 26, 2020

DEVELOPER

New Cisco SD-WAN API Documentation

2 min read

Test drive the developer documentation for API reference and how-to information - such as getting started and use cases - in the new DevNet always on SD-WAN Sandbox.

June 22, 2020

DEVELOPER

New SD-WAN Sandboxes and Postman Collections…Try Them Now

2 min read

Learn how to interact with the Cisco SD-WAN vManage REST API to automatically monitor and improve application traffic, generate reports on statistics, and trigger policy updates.