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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

October 2, 2019

DEVELOPER

New DevNet Postman Collection Makes Using APIs Easier

2 min read

The Cisco DevNet Postman Collection of pre-built APIs makes life easier to save, reuse, and share your API requests.

October 3, 2019

DEVELOPER

Get Started with Cisco SD-WAN Ansible Pipeline

1 min read

Take a step towards NetDevOps by using Ansible and VIRL to build test environments, create infrastructure-as-code, and automate Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 configurations.

August 13, 2019

DEVELOPER

“Code for Catalyst Challenge” is Now Open!

2 min read

Create an original Docker container application for the Cisco Catalyst Switch 9300, and WIN great prizes! New learning labs and Sandbox get you started.

July 30, 2019

DEVELOPER

Tune in: Network Automation Use Cases & Webinars Help Guide Your Journey

3 min read

This series of webinars help you tune into live discussions covering many of the use cases available in the DevNet Automation Exchange.

July 16, 2019

DEVELOPER

Network Automation Using Unified API – Napalm

7 min read

NAPALM supports several methods to connect to devices, manipulate configurations, or retrieve data.

June 7, 2019

DEVELOPER

Running NetBeez Agents on Cisco Catalyst Switches

3 min read

Catalyst owners can now easily install the NetBeez docker agent on their switches via the Cisco CLI.

April 10, 2019

DEVELOPER

Network Automation: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

4 min read

Let’s take a look at some of the network automation tools being used today to configure our networks, and keep them safe.

March 12, 2019

DEVELOPER

Learn How to Leverage BGP Automation to Execute Python Code Directly on an End Device

3 min read

DevNet Create, April 24-25 in Mt. View California, is the hands-on conference focused on infrastructure automation and application development.

March 4, 2019

DEVELOPER

Why Did I Start to Learn Go(lang)?

6 min read

To start learning Golang, I built my local environment and also played with a tour of Go, then picked up the basics, such as Variables, Primitives, Constants, and Arrays and Slices.