Ashley Burston
Senior Principal Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Mid Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAshley Burston is a Senior Principal Engineer with a long career focused on network automation and management software, currently driving solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise after a multi-role tenure at Juniper Networks. She combines deep practical experience in OSS/OSS-BSS and telecom infrastructure with hands-on coding, solving hard distributed systems problems that can't be scaled away with brute force. Based in Mid Suffolk, England, she brings 12 years of documented experience and over four decades of coding passion that began on an Atari 800XL, melding academic control-engineering rigor with pragmatic product delivery. Known for integrating multi-cloud and DevOps automation in complex enterprise and financial services environments, she excels at turning sprawling network challenges into robust, maintainable automation.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Eng (Control), Msc Eng (Control) at University of the Witwatersrand
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Github Skills (16)
juniper10
robotframework10
django9
excel9
automation9
jenkins9
test-automation-framework8
yaml8
ansible8
vagrant8
ruby5
virtualization5
linux3
user-interface3
vagrantfile1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aburston/nita-webapp
Mar 2022 - May 2026
nita-webapp, a lightweight django based webapp that orchestrates jenkins, ansible and robot, part of the Juniper NITA solution
Contributions:52 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
jenkinspythondjangoansibledocker
Juniper/nita-robot
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Robot Framework test automation framework, part of the Juniper NITA solution
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 29 commits in 1 year 10 months
juniperrobotframeworktest-automation-frameworkautomationnita
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