Simon Hart
System Engineer at Arista Networks
Brentwood, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSimon Hart is a seasoned system engineer with four decades of deep experience in data networking, currently applying his expertise at Arista Networks. A CCIE #15277 and Cisco DevNet professional, he blends presales engineering, network automation with Python, and SDN for complex Financial Services environments. He communicates technical solutions clearly as a regular Cisco Live speaker and has worked across Asia, Europe and the US, making him adept at cross-cultural engagement. Notably, his combination of high-level consulting and hands-on automation work enables pragmatic, deployable designs rather than theoretical architectures. Outside work he is a competitive endurance athlete—a former British v50 10k champion with a 2:38 marathon at 50—illustrating exceptional discipline and time-management.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
31reputation
6kreached
3answers
0questions
Github Skills (43)
parser9
cisco9
netmiko8
trend8
yang7
juniper7
napalm7
dependency-injection6
openflow6
windows-phone6
unity-container6
ospf5
netconf5
network-automation5
redfish5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RunSi/DEVWKS-2601
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
Cisco Live DevNet workshop 2601 - pyATS/GENIE ops and parsers
Contributions:168 commits, 12 PRs, 162 pushes in 9 months
parser
CiscoSE/FibreAttachedPorts
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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