Uroš Bajželj
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Self-Employed
Slovenia
Summary
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RockstarUroš Bajželj is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and network automation specialist with over a decade of experience blending deep networking expertise (CCIE Security) with software engineering practices. He moved from traditional network engineering into automation, becoming proficient in Python, Ansible, Cisco NSO, bash, and Git, and has implemented production automation on Kubernetes and AWS. As an active open-source contributor he enhanced napalm’s IOS driver by implementing get_config and traceroute, improving test coverage and driver robustness. He pairs hands-on coding with teaching experience—having delivered CCNP and NSO courses worldwide—and often crafts custom training and tooling for complex projects. Colleagues know him for enjoying hard problems, preferring code-driven network management over manual CLI work, and for shipping pragmatic automation that scales.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Slovenian, English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
network-automation10
cisco-ios10
python10
api8
apim8
integrations8
api-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
napalm-automation/napalm
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Uroš contributed significantly to the `napalm-automation/napalm` repository by implementing the `get_config` and `traceroute` methods for the IOS driver. They fixed PEP8 issues, added test data, and refactored the code, indicating a focus on functionality, testing, and code quality. Furthermore, they addressed the use of `send_command` by replacing it with `send_command_expect` to enable parameter passing, demonstrating a proactive approach to improving the driver's capabilities. These changes show a dedicated effort to expanding and refining the network automation features of the library.
netmikoprogrammabilitypythonnetwork-automationnetbox
networktocode/gh-action-setup-poetry-environment
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
The repo contains the GitHub action to setup the poetry environment
Contributions:7 releases, 6 reviews, 7 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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