John Kuchta
Senior Product Architect at Cisco Meraki
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Kuchta is a Senior Product Architect with a decade of experience designing cloud-native, API-first networking platforms and leading cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions for Fortune 500 customers. At Cisco Meraki he shaped API governance and REST design practices that contributed to Meraki winning Postman’s 2024 Best API Award, while also contributing practical Python SDK examples that streamline network management tasks like offline switch detection and uplink preference backups. He blends hands-on engineering, product strategy and ITIL-driven operational rigor—skills honed running his own consulting practice and managing large multi-vendor teams—to translate business goals into scalable, secure architectures. Known for mentoring engineers and harmonizing tooling and naming standards across organizations, he prioritizes people and measurable outcomes alongside technical excellence. An unusual strength is his ability to marry API design with analytics and product usage pipelines, turning telemetry into strategic decisions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Film, Television & Web, B.A., Film, Television & Web at Clark UniversityFilm, Television & Music, Film, Television & Music at University of East Anglia
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
network-automation10
automation10
automations10
sdk10
python10
apidoc9
api9
json7
openpyxl7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
meraki/dashboard-api-python
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Official Dashboard API library (SDK) for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 23 reviews, 85 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on adding and updating example notebooks for the Meraki Python SDK, specifically for tasks related to network device management. Their contributions included creating a demo for finding offline switches, checking SSID limits, and backing up uplink preferences to an Excel file. They also expanded Colab compatibility and cleaned up documentation for the notebooks.
pythonautomationdashboard-apimerakimeraki-api
TKIPisalegacycipher/Action-Batch-Helper
Aug 2021 - Mar 2024
Meraki Action Batch Helper
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
merakibatch
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