Tony Lofreso
Lead Engineer GenAI at Westfield Insurance
Wadsworth, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Lofreso is a Lead Engineer in GenAI at Westfield Insurance with nine years of hands-on experience in networking, security, and systems administration. He progressed through tiered network engineering roles to lead GenAI initiatives, combining deep Cisco/CCNA expertise, Active Directory and Linux skills, and practical automation experience. On GitHub he contributed parser logic for Cisco SD‑WAN device outputs, turning messy CLI data into structured schemas used by the Genie framework—an indicator of his attention to reliable, testable automation. Based in Wadsworth, Ohio, he pairs strong operational discipline (auditing, documentation, change control) with a quick-learning mindset that bridges legacy network infrastructure and modern AI-driven tooling.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Network Administration / Information Security, Associates Network Administration / Information Security at The University of AkronAssociates Network Administration & Internet Security, Associates Network Administration & Internet Security at Stark State College
Github Skills (9)
network-automation10
parser10
parsing10
python10
parse10
genie10
test-automation10
cisco9
regular-expression8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CiscoTestAutomation/genieparser
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
sub-component of Genie that parse the device output into structured datastructure
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of parsing libraries for network device output, specifically for Cisco SD-WAN devices. They added new parsers to extract data from `show sdwan` commands, supporting the parsing of BFD sessions and local properties. Furthermore, the user updated and maintained the project's changelog, documenting new parsers and correcting typos. The code changes involved creating schema definitions and parsing logic using Python and the Genie framework.
datastructurepythontest-automationtest-automation-frameworkstructured
tlofreso/tlofreso.github.io
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 PRs, 70 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 8 months
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