Jason Edelman
Founder & CTO at Network to Code
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Edelman is the Founder & CTO of Network to Code and a 12-year technology leader who specializes in network programmability, automation, and product strategy. He combines hands-on engineering—contributions to Ansible, ncclient, and the widely used ntc-templates parsing library—with strategic client-facing experience designing SDN, cloud networking, and NetOps solutions. A co-author of O'Reilly's Network Programmability & Automation and creator of the Nautobot open-source Source of Truth, he helps organizations operationalize data-driven network automation. His background as a former Principal Solutions Architect and Global Systems Engineer gives him a rare blend of sales-savvy consulting and deep protocol-level automation skills. Jason holds a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Stevens and maintains practical lab-to-production expertise including device-specific NETCONF and NX-OS automation work that often goes unnoticed outside operator circles.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.E. Computer Engineering, B.E. Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (30)
nxos10
configuration-manager10
network-configuration10
ropc10
ansible-module10
python10
scripting10
package-development10
testing10
plugin-development10
drpc10
configuration-management10
automation10
script10
rpc10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
networktocode/ntc-templates
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
TextFSM templates for parsing show commands of network devices
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:51 commits, 33 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on creating and modifying test scripts for the `ntc-templates` repository. Their commits demonstrate efforts to build testing infrastructure for parsing show commands using Ansible and Python. The changes involve adjusting module paths, arguments, and results printing to ensure the test suite functions correctly and provides accurate output comparisons. The user also appears to be debugging existing test scripts to improve their reliability and ensure the correct execution of test cases.
network-devicestextfsmparsing
ansible/ansible
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of Ansible modules, specifically focusing on network automation. They implemented and updated modules for managing network configurations on NX-OS devices, including switchport, VLAN, and interface configurations. The changes involve adding new modules, modifying existing ones, and updating documentation strings to improve clarity and functionality. The contributions focus on enhancing the automation capabilities of Ansible within the network domain.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
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