Jason Belk
Senior Technical Advocate
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Belk is a Senior Technical Advocate at Cisco with a decade of experience building and teaching network automation, Cloud Native, DevOps, and application development practices. He blends hands-on engineering—especially Tail-f/Cisco NSO, YANG, Python, and Cisco IOS config management—with curriculum design and community engagement to help professionals adopt automation at scale. At Cisco he has moved between roles as a developer evangelist, automation engineer, and learning specialist, creating widely used NSO training materials and running hands-on workshops. Known for translating complex network automation concepts into practical labs and content, he also shapes product feedback loops between learners and engineering teams. Based in Reno, Nevada, he’s as comfortable presenting at conferences as he is leading small agile teams and producing technical collateral that advances adoption.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Santa Clara UniversityMaster of Divinity - MDiv Faith & Culture, Master of Divinity - MDiv Faith & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Spanish
Github Skills (59)
python10
nexus10
nokia10
network-automation10
routers9
docker-image9
gitlab-ci9
postman-collection9
nxos9
docker-compose9
docker9
ansible9
docker-container9
parsing9
automation9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
NSO-developer/cisco-nso-postman
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
A Postman collection for the NSO RESTCONF API
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year
postman-collection
jabelk/intro-to-ansible-webinar
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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