Oliver Elliott
Principal Network Development Engineer at Acronis
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Elliott is a Principal Network Development Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and automating resilient network infrastructures across higher education and enterprise environments. He has led multi-million-pound data centre and campus projects, implementing modern fabrics like EVPN-VXLAN and managing infrastructure as code with Ansible, Jinja2 and GitLab CI/CD to deliver tested, repeatable deployments. Comfortable across vendor ecosystems (Cisco, Juniper, Cumulus, F5) and cloud connectivity, he blends architecture, security-driven segmentation and hands-on scripting to solve complex operational challenges. A mentor and team lead, he has introduced automation and testing practices that reduced human error and shortened change cycles, and continues to build and maintain open-source tools for networks-as-code from his base in Bristol.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Physics, BSc Physics at University of Bristol
Github Skills (67)
python10
automation10
ssh10
django10
infrastructure-management10
netmiko10
netbox10
ansible10
cisco10
network10
network-automation10
napalm10
infrastructure-as-code10
juniper10
devops10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OliElli/conf2yaml
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 months
configurationto-yamlconfigswitchyaml
OliElli/devicetype-library
Jan 2023 - Aug 2024
A collection of community-sourced DeviceType definitions for import to NetBox
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
community-sourcednetboxdefinitionsandroid
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