Adrian Iliesiu

Adrian Iliesiu, CCIE No. 43909 (R&S) is a network engineer at heart with over 15 years of professional IT experience. Currently, Adrian works as a Technical Leader with the Cisco DevNet Co-Creations team. During his career, Adrian has worked in several roles including team leader, network, systems and QA engineer across multiple industries and international organizations. When not working on innovative projects with Cisco customers and partners, Adrian advocates the advantages of network programmability and automation with a focus on enterprise and data center infrastructure. He is an established blog author, distinguished speaker at Cisco Live and a recipient of the coveted Cisco Pioneer award. Adrian also appeared on Cisco TechWiseTV, Cisco Champion podcasts and DevNet webinars. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and a master’s degree in Telecommunication Networks from Politehnica University of Bucharest.