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Siming Yuan

Technical Leader, Engineering

Core Software Group

Siming is a technical leader in the DevX team at Cisco System’s Core Software Group. A test automation evangelist, Siming is the core architect behind Cisco's pyATS test framework, and has played a pivotal role in pushing Cisco's internal automation testing community forward.

Siming is deeply passionate about Software Development, Automation and Technology in general, and offers a strong sense of logic and leadership, bringing teams together and forward through ingenuity and honesty.

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October 22, 2019

DEVELOPER

pyATS | Genie APIs Unlock the Power of Cisco DNA Center

Join me on Nov 7 for a DevNet hosted webinar: Network Automation with pyATS, Genie and Cisco DNA Center.  The blog below is a primer for that webinar. Integrating APIs into the pyATS automation ecosystem Intent-based networking using Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center provides you an eagle’s…

June 25, 2019

DEVELOPER

pyATS & Genie – Beneath the Surface

In the previous article: “Network Engineers Transform!,” you learned that pyATS | Genie comes with ready-to-use libraries, allowing everyone to exercise the power of these libraries, and perform powerful state difference verifications using its native shell CLI. Today, we’ll take you behind the scen…

May 28, 2019

DEVELOPER

pyATS & Genie – Network Engineers Transform!

One of the questions that gets asked most often around NetDevOps is, “I love the concept of NetDevOps, but I’m not a software developer. I’ve been a network engineer for X years, and I don’t know how to code…where do I  start?” You can start with Python. It’s a great programming la…

May 22, 2019

DEVELOPER

The Anatomy of NetDevOps

What distinguishes us as human? Complex cognitive abilities, of course. But beyond our intellectual prowess, the way humans change, adapt, evolve, and make use of tools is perhaps what sets our species apart more than anything else.1 As Network Engineers, we apply the network first principle – where…

November 29, 2017

DEVELOPER

Intuitive Test Automation for an Intuitive Network

The rise of intent-based, programmable networks has created new and exciting opportunities: ones that require new tools, new developer skills, and sometimes, new ways of thinking. So what do you do when presented with the opportunity to shape Cisco’s next 20 years of test automation? Our DevX test e…