Summary
Evangelos Chaniotakis is a Network Automation Engineer based in Berkeley with 13 years of experience combining deep networking expertise and full-stack software development to automate and scale network configuration and operations. At ESnet he progressed from software engineer to senior network automation roles, building production automation around SD-WAN, Cisco NSO, and DevOps practices. He codes fluently in Java and Python and surfaces operational capabilities through React and TypeScript front-ends, bridging the gap between network engineering and modern software practices. Known for long tenure in research network environments, he brings a pragmatic, protocol-aware approach to automation that favors auditable, repeatable workflows. An unusual asset is his background spanning both academic software at the University of Crete and large-scale research networking, which grounds his solutions in interoperability and robustness.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer