Author:Ryan Heffernan

After graduating from computer engineering, Ryan Heffernan cut his teeth with network automation at Alcatel-Lucent where he supported large service provider deployments of the 5620SAM Network Management System, followed by pre-sales work with Nuage Networks. Eventually he joined the Facebook corporate network team where he started an automation team and learned that it is actually possible to automate large multi-vendor deployments in an enterprise environment.