Sven Wisotzky
PLM Architect Network Automation
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSven Wisotzky is a PLM Architect for Network Automation with over 20 years of hands-on experience in software development, carrier network design and project delivery across Europe and the United States. He blends deep protocol-level expertise—IPv6 migration, L2/L3 VPNs, Ethernet OAM, multicast and QoS—with practical skills in OSS/BSS integration, mass provisioning/migration and test automation to deliver highly available, resilient networks. At Nokia he has progressed from network solutions architect and product manager roles into developer experience and automation leadership, driving both product and operational improvements. An active contributor to the Ansible project, he enhanced NETCONF support and broadened device compatibility (including SROS), demonstrating his commitment to open-source tooling that simplifies network automation. Known for tackling complex carrier-grade challenges, he pairs systems-level thinking with software craftsmanship to operationalize large-scale network services.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Heinrich-Hertz Gymnasium BerlinIngenieur Technical Computer Science, Ingenieur Technical Computer Science at Berufsakademie Berlin (part of HWR/Berlin FHW since 2003)
German, Russian, English
Github Skills (7)
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
netconf10
python10
ansible10
ncclient9
xml9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
May 2017 - Jun 2018
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
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 24 PRs, 117 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sven primarily contributed to the Ansible project by implementing and modifying modules related to network configuration, specifically focusing on NETCONF. Their work involved adding support for new attributes and features, such as the 'src' attribute, and creating a new module for NETCONF RPC operations. Furthermore, the user provided support for SROS devices within the NETCONF framework, enhancing the project's compatibility with different network operating systems. The contributions also included code improvements like pep8 compliance, and fixing documentation related issues and locking behavior.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
nokia/vscode-netconf
Apr 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 3 PRs in 2 years 10 months
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