Julio leads Cisco’s incredibly strategic priority of Programmability in EMEAR, focusing on driving NetDevOps capabilities. CCIE #9302 and AWS Architect, he is a Cisco veteran and has spent most of career in Service Provider, Data Centre and Cloud. He has worked as pre-sales engineer for major Service Providers (Telefonica, Orange, Vodafone, O2), and has enabled EMEAR partners on all things DC & SP. Deeply technical, Julio has a long-time passion for DevOps, Cloud-native application development with microservices, Docker containers, Kubernetes, Istio, CI/CD/CD, Serverless, on-premises and public Cloud providers. On those rare occasions he is not in front of his computer, Julio plays old guitars. Very old ones, in fact.