David Soper
Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Soper is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco with nine years of experience focused on systems management, monitoring, automation, and orchestration in the computer networking space. He brings a strong firmware and embedded-systems background from roles at Hewlett Packard, Convey Computer, and Stryker, and pairs that hardware depth with hands-on software skills in C, C++, and Python. At Cisco he translates low-level technical capabilities into operational tools and messaging for customers, and his open-source work includes adding a Cisco UCS Manager module to the widely used Ansible project—improving automation, tests, and code quality. Holding an MSEE from Stanford and a BSCE from Texas A&M, he comfortably spans firmware debugging through orchestration design. Colleagues rely on him to bridge firmware realities and cloud-native automation, making complex infrastructure both observable and automatable.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSCE, BSCE at Texas A&M UniversityMSEE, MSEE at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
ansible10
plugin-development10
ansible-galaxy10
python10
drupal-module10
package-development10
integration-testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:27 commits, 31 PRs, 26 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:David's primary contribution involved developing and integrating a Cisco UCS Manager module for configuring MAC address pools and related blocks. They implemented Python modules, added configuration options, and included integration tests. The user also focused on improving code quality through PEP8, pylint, and validate-modules fixes and addressed indenting issues. The contributions further include refactoring and updating documentation of the module.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
dsoper2/intersight-python-utils
Jan 2021 - May 2025
Cisco Intersight Python Utilities
Contributions:38 pushes, 57 branches in 4 years 4 months
intersightpython-utilitiespythoncisco-intersightpython3
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