Stephen Kiely
Senior Engineer, Network Automation
Arlington, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Kiely is a Senior Network Automation Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience modernizing service provisioning and network operations for large carriers and managed services. Based in Arlington, Texas, he combines deep networking credentials (CCNA/voice) and systems expertise with practical Python automation—contributing backend support for prominent open-source projects like Netmiko and Nautobot to add device support and private-Git/auth features. At Frontier he led BluePlanet orchestration development, building Jinja/TextFSM pipelines, CI/CD for Resource Adapters, and automated cleanup routines to cut provisioning costs. Stephen’s background spans virtualization, server scripting, and security-focused operations, and he brings a track record of turning messy, unstructured network data into reliable, testable automation.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BIS, Business, BIS, Business at The University of Texas at ArlingtonBachelor’s Degree, Information technology - Security, Sophmore, Bachelor’s Degree, Information technology - Security, Sophmore at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (16)
network-automation10
git10
python10
django10
ssh10
dc9
telnet9
ip9
configuration-management9
rest-api8
api-rest8
testing8
api-design8
restful-api8
database7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nautobot/nautobot
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Network Source of Truth & Network Automation Platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:321 reviews, 49 commits, 115 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Nautobot platform. Their commits focused on adding support for private Git repositories, incorporating user authentication, and integrating cable path tracing through circuits. They implemented new features, made code modifications in core files, and developed associated tests to ensure proper functionality. These changes involved modifications to forms, models, tests and serializers, demonstrating a focus on extending and enhancing the core networking automation capabilities of the project.
netmikopythonnetwork-automationtruthsot
ktbyers/netmiko
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on adding support for RAD ETX series devices to the netmiko library. They implemented the necessary classes for SSH and Telnet connections, including configuration mode support and the ability to save configurations. Their work involved modifying existing dispatcher files and creating new modules to integrate the RAD ETX devices into the netmiko framework, based on the Cisco save command, as well as documentation improvements. This likely involved interacting with the underlying network device configuration and communication protocols.
netmikovendorpythonnetwork-devicesparamiko
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