London Network Automation meetup #11

Hi everyone, I hope you had a nice long summer and that you have been waiting for this announcement! We are excited to announce the next LNAM Meetup #11 for Wednesday 9th October at the amazing Equinix office!

For this Meetup we have:

• Jason Edelman founder of Network to Code based out of New York. He spends his days helping clients adopt network automation through professional training and consulting services. He's been an active advocate for network automation since 2014.
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• David Parker is an Engineering Manager in the Networking Software Team at Metaswitch Networks. He has particular responsibilities for Engineering Productivity, Automation, Testing and Delivery.

David has worked in various Development and Management roles across Metaswitch for the last 18 years. He has a passion for helping engineers to properly understand all aspects of software quality, and the part that highly skilled testing plays in helping to deliver high quality software reliably and quickly.

Metaswitch networks is a world leader in producing IP/MPLS networking software that many vendors use at the heart of their routers. In this talk we’ll discuss how we use network automation as a key part of our test processes and how we use DevOps techniques to reliably deliver new releases of networking software without the need for lengthy QA cycles. We’ll also suggest ways the same methods could be used for configuration management and lab testing of real network deployments.

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• David Gee is an Applied Automation & Event Driven Specialist Systems Engineer. David's expertise covers datacenter, ISP and enterprise and has a particular interest in SN, SDN, NFV, programmability and automation using DevOps methodologies, including business applicability and security.

Thanks again to Equinix for continuing to host us in their fabulous space in Devonshire Square!

We'll follow the usual format:
6.00pm Arrival, drinks and food
6.30pm Sponsor introduction
6.40 pm Presentations
8pm Panel discussions
9.00pm Event ends. Adjourn for discussions somewhere nearby :)

As always, if you'd like to present, or be part of the panel at a future date then please message us via Meetup.