Carl Montanari
Staff Software Engineer at Costco Wholesale
North Bend, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarCarl Montanari is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building network automation, tooling, and infrastructure software using Go, Python, and Zig. He creates practical OSS like scrapli and clabernetes and has contributed significant enhancements to widely used projects such as containerlab and netmiko, improving multi-vendor networking support and CI reliability. Comfortable across DevOps, backend, and network reliability roles, he has driven automation and integrations at companies from startups to enterprises including Loft Labs, Nokia, and Costco. Based in North Bend, WA, he brings a tinkerer’s curiosity to production engineering—preferring elegant automation (“kubernoodles”) that reduces toil and scales network operations.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
network-automation10
file-transfer10
container10
go10
python10
networking10
ssh10
dockers9
testing9
docker9
kubernetes6
kubernetes-pods6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
srl-labs/containerlab
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
container-based networking labs
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Network Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Network Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 13 commits, 11 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Carl primarily focused on enhancing the `containerlab` project, which is centered around container-based networking labs. Their contributions include adding support for Palo Alto PAN-VM, integrating and updating various network OS integrations. The user also refined the configuration and setup processes, ensuring smoother integration with the scrapligo library. Furthermore, the user addressed CI/CD related issues, fixed hang issues, and updated the project to use newer scrapligo versions.
containerlabsdncrpdceosdocker
ktbyers/netmiko
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices
Role in this project:Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:6 commits, 49 PRs, 7 pushes in 28 days
Contributions summary:Carl primarily focused on enhancing the `netmiko` library, which simplifies SSH connections to network devices. Their contributions involved modifying existing code to align with Python 3 standards by changing super() invocations. They also updated file transfer drivers, and added support for socket timeouts. Furthermore, they modified the md5 checksum calculation for files.
netmikovendorpythonnetwork-devicesparamiko
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