Brett Lykins
Sr. Systems Development Engineer at Amazon
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Lykins is a senior systems development engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operationalizing large-scale network automation and security platforms. He has led cross-functional teams from consulting and managed services to product leadership, shaping cloud-native Kubernetes platforms for enterprise automation (Nautobot, AWX, Vault, Grafana) and driving automation-first strategies at Rackspace and Network to Code. Brett now contributes to software-defined infrastructure work with SONiC at Amazon, blending deep networking expertise (F5, Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto) with Python and Go automation. He’s experienced in translating complex legacy environments into scalable, compliant automation for Fortune 100 customers and service providers. Notably, he combines product ownership and technical delivery skills—owning pricing, market analysis, and pre-sales for managed services while also architecting the underlying platform. Based in Virginia, he brings a pragmatic focus on operational efficiency and measurable time-savings from automation at fleet scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Network Administration, BS Network Administration at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (90)
python10
graph-database10
monitoring10
simplify10
htop10
netmiko10
connections10
napalm10
restful-api10
freebsd10
restful10
gnu10
inventory-management9
linux9
pluggable9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lykinsbd/nautobot
Mar 2021 - Oct 2024
Network Source of Truth & Network Automation Platform
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
netmikopythonnetwork-automationtruthnapalm
lykinsbd/stockpiler
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Stockpile Your Network Device Configurations - A Python/Nornir Based Network Device Backup Tool
Contributions:82 commits, 20 PRs, 73 pushes in 3 months
pythonbackup-devicebackup-toolconfigurationsbackup
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