Carl Buchmann
Manager, Solutions Engineering at Arista Networks
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Buchmann is a solutions engineering leader with 8+ years focused on designing, automating and operationalizing modern data center and campus networks. At Arista Networks he moved from Systems Engineer to Manager of Solutions Engineering, leading the Arista AVD (Architect, Validate, Deploy) project and shaping network CI/CD reference architectures used by customers and partners. His hands-on background spans routing & switching, storage networking, security, VMware and server hardware, with a strong automation toolkit (Ansible, Python, PowerShell) that he applies to production-grade templates and collections. Notably, he’s a principal maintainer and full-stack contributor to the widely used aristanetworks/avd repo, improving template data models and multi-design support. Based in Ottawa, he combines field-facing consulting experience with product management instincts to turn complex network designs into repeatable, automated deployments.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'études secondaires, Diplôme d'études secondaires at College Saint-AnneipSpace Building Network Automation Solutions courseAEC, Network Administration, AEC, Network Administration at CEGEP - John Abbott College
French, English
Github Skills (24)
jinja210
net10
configuration-management10
templater10
template-engine10
aries10
networking10
vlan10
yaml10
ansible10
bgp10
network10
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
aris10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aristanetworks/avd
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Arista AVD: Architect Validate Deploy
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 releases, 1796 reviews, 811 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Carl's commits primarily focus on developing configuration templates for Arista's AVD (Architect Validate Deploy) project. They implemented and refined templates for various network configurations, including L3 leaf and L2 leaf designs, BGP configurations, and VLAN management. The user also contributed to improving the data model for the templates, adding features like custom VLAN ranges and the ability to configure multicast settings.
cvpjinja2cloudvisionnetwork-automationcloudvision-portal
arista-netdevops-community/action-molecule-avd
Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
Github Action to leverage Ansible Molecule in AVD
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 6 PRs in 2 years 8 months
ansiblemoleculeansible-moleculeleverageavd
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