Alberto Rodriguez-natal
Team Lead - Enterprise Networking CTO Team at Cisco
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlberto Rodriguez-natal is a seasoned networking researcher and engineering leader with 14 years of experience, currently leading Cisco’s Enterprise Networking CTO team from Barcelona. He blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science and publications/patents—with hands-on product leadership across Cisco’s San Francisco and Barcelona engineering hubs. His work spans intent-based networking, architecture and research engineering, and he actively contributes to IETF standards, highlighting a focus on practical interoperability and protocol design. Colleagues value him for translating cutting-edge research into deployable networking innovations and mentoring cross-functional teams. Lesser-known is his global research footprint, including a visiting researcher stint in Tokyo, which informs a broad, multicultural approach to technical problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Universidad de LeónUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, English
Github Skills (29)
router10
overlay10
openwrt10
lisp10
android9
portal9
egress8
sd-wan8
aws-cloudmap8
kubernetes7
networking7
gcp7
kubernetes-service7
operator7
service-discovery6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CloudNativeSDWAN/cnwan-docs
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Start here! Documentation for the Cloud-Native SD-WAN (CNWAN) Project
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
cloud-nativesd-wanwankubernetes
arnatal/draft-petra-green-api
Oct 2025 - Feb 2026
Contributions:6 pushes in 4 months
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