Jeffrey Kala
Principal Architect at Network to Code
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Kala is a Principal Architect specializing in network automation with seven years of focused experience translating complex routing and switching needs into scalable, auditable automation solutions. At Network to Code he builds architecture, reusable tooling, and training while advising delivery teams and presenting technical tradeoffs to executive stakeholders. He combines deep hands-on skills in Python and Ansible with growing expertise in Go, Java, Terraform, Kafka and Ansible EDA, and has a track record of contributing to and leading open-source projects around Nautobot and NetDevOps tooling. Prior roles at Charles Schwab and Verizon involved large-scale automation of DCNM and VxLAN fabric migrations, showing an ability to turn manual operational tasks into idempotent, production-ready workflows. Certified CCNA and Cisco DevNet Professional, he pairs practical carrier-grade operations experience with a knack for developer-focused documentation and internal training that accelerates team capability. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he’s as comfortable writing custom Ansible modules as he is shaping high-level automation strategy.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Network Systems Administration Computer and Information Sciences General, Network Systems Administration Computer and Information Sciences General at DeVry IrvingBachelor's degree Network and Communication Management, Bachelor's degree Network and Communication Management at DeVry Institute of Technology
Github Skills (92)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
networktocode/2022-ntc-content
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Content from NTCers at conferences, blogs, videos, and other events in 2022.
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 4 PRs in 27 days
videosconferencesevents
jeffkala/batfish
Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
Batfish is a network configuration analysis tool that can find bugs and guarantee the correctness of (planned or current) network configurations. It enables network engineers to rapidly and safely evolve their network, without fear of outages or security breaches.
Contributions:52 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
outagesnetwork-engineerssecuritybatfishnetworking
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