Scaling your infrastructure requires more than just new tools. It requires a production-ready strategy. I help organizations bridge the gap between traditional networking and the future of AI-driven automation through targeted training, high-impact sponsorship, and executive briefings.
Network Automation Nerds is a trusted source for senior engineers, reaching the architects of the next decade. The show lives on the Packet Pushers network, putting your product in front of automation leads, infrastructure principals, and senior staff engineers. They pick the tools and sign the POs.
One mid-roll or pre-roll on a specific episode. Written with you, read by me.
Four to six episodes over a quarter. Each read is rewritten so the audience hears something new each time.
A small run of episodes built around your topic. We script the angle together. Your team brings guests. The episodes live on the regular feed.
"We didn't just sponsor podcast episodes; we built campaigns around them. Three episodes in, and the ROI is clear."
"In marketing, you look for channels that scale. After seeing the response from our first episode, we knew we had to double down. By bringing our customers from Intel and Cox Communications onto the Network Automation Nerds Podcast, we created high-trust assets that continue to drive interest in Nautobot months after airing. If you want a predictable way to reach the network automation community, Eric's platform is the playbook."
Modernize your NetOps workforce. My workshops transition your team from manual CLI workflows to robust, Python-driven automation and pragmatic AI integration. We use your repos, your change windows, and your real-world tickets.
Overview of the AI shift in network operations and what's worth your team's time right now. Good for aligning a group before committing to a longer engagement.
Python network automation refreshed and pointed at AI tooling. We work from your repos when possible and ship something usable by the end.
Four to eight weeks. Small group, weekly office hours, capstone project that solves a real problem your team has.
Mix and match the modules below to fit your team's level. Each one comes with hands-on labs.
Netmiko, NAPALM, Nornir, plus the patterns that hold up in production five years later.
Prompts, evals, guardrails, and the parts of an AI workflow that fail when the network is on fire.
For teams with data that can't leave the network. Tradeoffs in quality, latency, and ops overhead.
What change management looks like when an LLM is suggesting the change. Approval flows, rollback, audit.
The applied wins. Where AI actually reduces toil today, and where it pretends to.
Turning institutional knowledge into runbooks engineers will actually use, faster than writing them by hand.
Whether it's a keynote, an executive briefing, or an internal all-hands, my talks separate vendor hype from engineering reality. Practical guidance on where AI actually moves the needle for network teams today.
What's working in production today. What isn't. What's a vendor demo and what's not. 30 to 60 minutes with Q&A.
Conversational format. Recorded or live. Good for sponsor stages or community events.
Lead time is typically 4 to 8 weeks for a custom talk, shorter if I can adapt a recent one. Domestic US travel is the default. International by arrangement.
Whether it's a single episode read, a workshop, or a keynote, send a note through the contact form and I'll reply. I'd rather hear what you actually need before suggesting anything.