cv:
  name: Allan Eising
  location: Oslo, Norway
  email: allan@eising.dk
  phone: tel:+47 92058800
  website: https://automate.network
  social_networks:
    - network: LinkedIn
      username: aeising
    - network: GitHub
      username: Eising
  sections:
    profile:
      - Passionate network automation expert with a proven track record delivering large-scale solutions.
      - A strong software development skillset, mixed with a deep technical insight in network engineering, complemented by a rare ability to facilitate technical content in both writing and public speaking.

    experience:
      - company: Telia Company
        position: Network Automation Architect
        location: Oslo, Norway
        start_date: 2020-05
        summary: Senior developer, solution architect creating network automation solution primarily using cisco NSO.
        highlights:
          - Development of network automation for B2B, and B2C segments, as well as internal backbone services across Telia Company's Nordic footprint
          - Defined, refined and documented a continuously evolving automation architecture
          - Network automation primarily implemented with Cisco NSO
          - Software development in Python, with datamodelling in YANG
          - Key responsibility for Norwegian network automation initiatives, including stakeholder management, requirement gathering, escalations, etc.
          - Part of a distributed devops team

      - company: Telia Company
        position: Network Engineer
        location: Oslo, Norway
        start_date: 2017-09
        end_date: 2020-05
        highlights:
          - Operating the IP backbone network of Telia Company
          - Implementing IP connectivity solutions for the mobile core networks
          - Part of an operational on-call rotation
          - Key stakeholder in large-scale automation project

      - company: NORDUnet
        position: IP and Security Specialist
        location: Kastrup, Denmark
        start_date: 2015-11
        end_date: 2017-09
        highlights:
          - Working on various network projects supporting research and education
          - Implementing various security-related projects
          - Part of a cross-border IP specialist team

      - company: DKNOG
        position: Chairman and founder
        start_date: 2010
        end_date: 2017
        highlights:
          - I have founded and been one of the main driving forces behind the Danish Network Operators Group
          - Our yearly conference is now the largest independent network engineering conference in the Nordic region.
          - DKNOG continues to grow and support the network engineering community
          - I still sit on the board and in the program committee
      - company: Nianet A/S
        position: Senior Network Engineer
        location: Glostrup, Denmark
        start_date: 2011
        end_date: 2015
        highlights:
          - Operation and network design responsibility for a large service provider with a last-mile fiber network and national MPLS network
          - Designed the next-generation datacentre network based on Juniper MX and EX platforms
          - Developed custom performance testing and certification software system in Ruby
          - Built a solution for continuous performance monitoring and reporting for customer CPE devices.
          - Rolled out a new national backbone based on Cisco ASR9000 and bleeding-edge network satellites
          - Cooperated with external software company to spec and refine customer delivery support systems

      - company: IP Vision A/S
        position: Network Engineer
        location: Nærum, Denmark
        start_date: 2008
        end_date: 2011
        highlights:
          - Designed and implemented a service provider MPLS network from scratch.
          - Designed and implemented a managed security product from scratch.
          - Ran the process of becoming a RIPE LIR, including administration and peering policies.
          - Developed new network management tools and automation.

    notable_projects:
      - name: TSA Norway
        location: Telia Company
        highlights:
          - The TSA project aimed to create a whole new end-to-end datacom realization platform for Telia after the purchase and merger with TDC and GET.
          - I became a key participant of the project, designing the architecture and solution, and leading the development including being a team-lead for a project team.
          - While the overall goal of the project was never reached, the solutions I came up with were a great success, and are part of why Telia Company Norway is leading in automation today.

    publications:
      - title: 3D Finite Element Analysis of No-Insulation Coils
        authors:
          - Frodo Baggins
          - "***John Doe***"
          - Samwise Gamgee
        doi: 10.1109/TASC.2023.3340648
        date: 2004-01
    projects:
      - name: Multi-User Drawing Tool
        date: "[github.com/name/repo](https://github.com/sinaatalay/rendercv)"
        highlights:
          - Developed an electronic classroom where multiple users
            can simultaneously view and draw on a "chalkboard"
            with each person's edits synchronized
          - "Tools Used: C++, MFC"
      - name: Synchronized Desktop Calendar
        date: "[github.com/name/repo](https://github.com/sinaatalay/rendercv)"
        highlights:
          - Developed a desktop calendar with globally shared
            and synchronized calendars, allowing users to schedule
            meetings with other users
          - "Tools Used: C#, .NET, SQL, XML"
      - name: Custom Operating System
        date: 2002
        highlights:
          - Built a UNIX-style OS with a scheduler, file system,
            text editor, and calculator
          - "Tools Used: C"
    technologies:
      - label: Languages
        details: C++, C, Java, Objective-C, C#, SQL, JavaScript
      - label: Technologies
        details: .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, XCode, Interface
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