Brad Bester
System Architect at Cisco Systems, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Bester is a seasoned system architect with nearly three decades in networking, currently advising customers at Cisco to design pragmatic, future-ready data center and cloud architectures. He blends deep IP networking expertise—routing, switching, security and SDN/ACI—with hands-on automation skills (Puppet, Docker, OpenStack) and a practical appreciation for budgets and deployment timelines. His background leading product and strategic development at D-Link gives him unique visibility into silicon roadmaps and go-to-market partnerships with major vendors. An active contributor to integration tooling, he has built practical Webex SDK examples and an ngrok-based webhook automator that smooth local-to-cloud developer workflows. Based in Atlanta with a BS in Physics from UCLA, Brad is energized by emerging shifts—IoT, Big Data, and ML—and focuses on building secure, cost-effective networks that enable those transformations.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
French
Github Skills (12)
apim10
automation10
automations10
api10
python10
webex10
api-design10
ngrok9
webhooks9
python-lib8
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
WebexCommunity/WebexPythonSDK
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Work with the Webex APIs in native Python!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 5 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to example scripts and tools demonstrating the use of the Webex Python SDK. Their work included creating example scripts for basic room management and bot integrations, showcasing practical applications of the SDK. Furthermore, they developed an `ngrokwebhook.py` script, indicating a focus on automating webhook setup and demonstrating how to integrate with the Webex platform using ngrok for local development and testing. These contributions highlight a focus on SDK usability and platform integration.
python-libraryapipythonwebexasyncio
brbester/pyCiscoSpark
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 11 months
python-libraryapipythoncisco-sparkspark
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