Kent Watsen
Member Of The IAB's Program Committee For The Next-Era Of Network Management Operations (NEMOPS)
Leesburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKent Watsen is a veteran network management architect and entrepreneur with 25 years of commercial product development experience and a track record of delivering four successful NMS/EMS products. He has led large-scale engineering efforts at Juniper and Netscreen, authored multiple IETF RFCs, co-chairs the NETCONF and NETMOD working groups, and holds 27 software patents. As founder of Watsen Networks and a contributor to open source projects, he combines deep hands-on systems engineering (from ZFS/KVM to JUNOS integrations) with standards leadership that shaped protocols like RESTCONF, NETCONF Call Home, NMDA, and SZTP. Based in Leesburg, VA, he also serves on the IAB’s NEMOPS program committee, marrying practical operator experience running a complex home lab with global influence in network configuration and automation.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD), Computer Science at Naval Postgraduate SchoolBS, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Engineering, BS, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Engineering at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (78)
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wiki-engine9
windows9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
netconf-wg/restconf-client-server
Jun 2016 - Apr 2025
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch, 39 tags in 9 years
netconf-wg/list-pagination-nc
Nov 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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