Summary
Chris Kodadek is a Software Consulting Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco with eight years of experience architecting cloud, network, and infrastructure automation solutions. He specializes in software-defined networking, Cisco DNA SDA, network automation/orchestration, and operational best practices, bringing deep expertise in NMS/OSS architectures, device instrumentation, and performance/QoS monitoring. Chris has presented at Cisco Live! on service and network management topics and integrates tools like NetFlow, IPSLA, Netcool, and CA NetQoS into pragmatic, compliant deployments. He combines hands-on scripting and integration skills (Perl, Python, Ruby/Rails) with modern practices such as CI/CD and containerizing network microservices. Based in Apex, North Carolina, he is known for tackling the hard, behind-the-scenes automation work that enables others to move faster.
8 years of coding experience