Summary
Andy Bierman is a seasoned software architect and standards leader with over three decades of experience designing embedded network management, YANG/NETCONF tooling, and programmatic control-plane SDKs. As President of YumaWorks and former CEO of Netconf Central, he has led open-source projects and built production-grade YANG compilers and NETCONF servers used by operators and vendors. His career spans technical leadership roles at Cisco, Brocade, SynOptics, and early embedded systems work, combining low-level device driver expertise with modern RESTful and C-based server implementations. An active participant and chair/co-chair/editor in multiple IETF working groups, he brings rare deep protocol standards knowledge alongside practical implementation experience. Based in Simi Valley, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a tendency to bridge academic formalism and hands-on engineering, evident in both his tools and his influence on network management standards.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Radio and Television, Bachelor of Arts, Radio and Television at San Francisco State University