Hello there 👋

My name is Brett Lykins, and my pronouns are He/Him.

I live in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

Quick facts about me

One of these is a lie, and you should try to guess which one.

• 🤓 I am a new nerd who loves knowing how things work and how they’re put together
• 👨🏻‍💻 🎸 I am passionate about technology and music, but after an unsuccessful year at music school I realized I should probably keep technology as a career and music as a hobby
• 💼 I spent 15 years working in Networking and Security before I began to use Python and Go to make my life easier
• ✍🏻 🎙 I write and speak about the intersection of these things to help organizations solve IT infrastructure problems

Current projects

These are projects that I am (somewhat) actively working on.

• NAAS: Netmiko as A Service is a REST API wrapper for the popular Netmiko Python library for interacting with network devices. Currently modernizing and preparing for v1.0 release.
• cisshgo: A small, fast, concurrent SSH server to emulate network equipment (for example, Cisco IOS) for testing purposes.
• Leanpub Multi Action: A Github Action I built for interacting with the API of Leanpub in your authoring workflows.

Past projects

These are projects I was actively working on in the past, but I’ve not touched much in recent months (or years 😅).

• Stockpiler: A Nornir-based tool for backing up network device configurations.

Tech stack

Languages: Python, Go, Shell/Bash, Groovy
Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Linux
Network Automation: Infrahub, Nautobot, NetBox, Ansible, Netmiko, Nornir, NAPALM
Protocols: GNMI, Netconf/RESTconf, SNMP
Tools: Git, GitHub Actions, Flask, Redis

Let’s connect

• 📝 Blog: network-notes.com
• 💼 LinkedIn: brettlykins
• 📧 Email: [email protected]

Drumroll please

The lie was the first one, if you guessed right here is a cookie: 🍪

I am not a new nerd, but a lifelong nerd.

And here are the receipts.

My first computer:

Teaching my son that This is the Way: