Chris Jenn
Senior Principal Cloud Network Engineer at Aviatrix
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorChris Jenn is a Senior Principal Cloud Network Engineer based in Sydney with over 25 years of networking experience and a decade in cloud-focused roles, currently shaping Aviatrix's cloud networking strategy. A JNCIE-SP Emeritus and former Juniper escalation engineer, he combines deep carrier-grade routing expertise with hands-on automation—authoring Python tools and contributing notable fixes and FTP enhancements to the widely used py-junos-eznc library. He has a track record of building business-critical diagnostics and supportability improvements at Juniper, mentoring global teams and shipping C-level bug fixes. Always aiming to "automate himself out of a job," Chris blends operational rigor with software craftsmanship to simplify complex networks at scale.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (6)
ftp10
pytest10
python10
testing9
netconf9
yaml8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/py-junos-eznc
May 2018 - May 2019
Python library for Junos automation
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Engineer
Backend & Test EngineerContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `py-junos-eznc` library by enhancing the FTP functionality. They added features like callback support for file transfers, improved error handling, and implemented a test suite. Further, they fixed a bug related to the `StartShell.run()` functionality, ensuring accurate exit code handling. Finally, the user added a YAML file for a new RPC, reflecting their involvement in expanding the library's capabilities.
python-librarynetmikopythonjunosnapalm
Juniper/topoviz
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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