Dafné Mendoza
Principal Product Manager - Ansible Automation Platform
Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
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Top SchoolDafné Mendoza is a Principal Product Manager specializing in network automation and event-driven Ansible, with nine years of experience translating field engineering expertise into global product strategy at Red Hat. Her background spans technical marketing, professional services, and hands-on network and systems engineering across telco, enterprise, and service provider environments, enabling her to bridge customer needs with engineering delivery. She has led adoption and technical enablement for complex automation stacks—deploying solutions like Ansible Tower, Cisco NSO, DNA Center, WAE and multiple Prime suites—while using Agile and DevNet practices to accelerate value realization. Trained in strategic IT leadership at Harvard Business School and with a master’s in IT strategy, she combines technical depth (Python, OSS/BSS, ITIL, SCRUM) with market-facing storytelling to align partners and product messaging. Notably, her career blends early ground-level roles (datacenter, WAN, and edge operations) with strategic product leadership, giving her a rare end-to-end perspective on automation adoption.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Máster, Dirección Estratégica de Tecnologías de la Información, Máster, Dirección Estratégica de Tecnologías de la Información at Universidad Europea Miguel de CervantesEscuela Militar de Ingeniería "Mcal. Antonio José de Sucre"PLD Module 5, Authentic Leadership, PLD Module 5, Authentic Leadership at Harvard Business School
English
Github Skills (15)
eos10
jinja210
network-automation8
ansible8
python8
gitea4
machine-learning4
cisco4
automation3
juniper3
imperative2
f52
bigip1
infrastructure-as-code1
openflow1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dafmendo/Meraki-Deployment
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:258 pushes in 2 years
dafmendo/gitops_ansible-sdwan
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Triggering network edge config from GitHub
Contributions:3 reviews, 110 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
network-automationgiteaedgeconfignetwork-edge
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