Brett Lykins
Sr. Network 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
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Network Administration, BS Network Administration at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (73)
pluggable10
python10
graph-database10
threaded10
operating-system10
monitoring10
htop10
netmiko10
cicd10
gitops10
network-automation10
napalm10
restful-api10
restful10
devops10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lykinsbd/netmiko
Jun 2017 - May 2020
Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
vendornetwork-devicesparamikosshmulti-vendor
lykinsbd/lykinsbd
Dec 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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