Rodrigo Estigoni, Senior Network Automation & AI Engineer

Senior automation engineer with 15+ years in enterprise networking, from Cisco Collaboration / Unified Communications to large-scale network automation, and 5+ years building production network automation at scale in the banking sector, now combined with hands-on GenAI engineering. I deliver multi-vendor automation with Python, Ansible, and REST APIs, and design AI-powered, agentic, and RAG-based workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, MCP) deployed as self-hosted services. Early GenAI adopter, LLM-assisted development daily. CCIE Collaboration (#48903) and Cisco DevNet / Automation certified.

Experience

Principal Network Automation Specialist, NTT Ltd.

Oct 2014 – Present

Banking-sector client · Remote

Architected an enterprise network automation platform from concept to production, automating provisioning, compliance hardening, and remediation across multi-vendor infrastructure (Cisco IOS/NX-OS/ACI, Check Point, F5, Huawei, Meraki, DNA Center, Infoblox) with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Python.
Built self-service portals (React + Django / FastAPI) for device provisioning, DNS/IPAM, inventory, and change management, cutting manual effort and turnaround time.
Delivered REST API integrations across ServiceNow (CMDB/change), Palo Alto Prisma + AlgoSec (SASE policy), Akamai, ThousandEyes, and Infoblox.
Automated compliance validation and remediation (AAA/TACACS, SNMP, NTP, DNS, logging, security hardening) across multiple vendors.

Senior Network Analyst, Entelgy

Apr 2014 – Oct 2014

São Paulo, Brazil

Senior-level engineering and support of Cisco Unified Communications (UC) for enterprise clients.

Telecommunications Analyst, PromonLogicalis

Sep 2012 – Mar 2014

São Paulo, Brazil

Key engineer on a large-scale legacy-PABX to Cisco Unified Communications migration for a banking client, rolled out across ~1,000 branches.

Support Analyst, Resource IT Solutions

Nov 2011 – Sep 2012

Alphaville / SP, Brazil

Front-line Cisco telephony / voice support delivered directly to the end customer.

Skills

Network Automation · NetDevOps · Network Programmability

Python · FastAPI · Django · Jinja2

AI / GenAI · LLM apps (Claude, OpenAI) · LangChain · LangGraph

RAG · MCP (Model Context Protocol) · agentic workflows

Ansible · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AWX/Tower)

REST APIs · JSON · XML · YAML · Netmiko

Docker · Docker Compose · Git · GitHub

MySQL · PostgreSQL

Multi-vendor · Cisco IOS/NX-OS/ACI · Meraki · DNA Center

Check Point · F5 · Huawei · Infoblox · Palo Alto Prisma · AlgoSec · Akamai

Certifications

CCIE Collaboration #48903 · active

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert

Cisco DevNet Professional 2022–2028

CCNP Automation

Cisco Certified Specialist

Enterprise Automation · Automation Core · Data Center Core · Collaboration Core

CCNA · CCNA Automation

Languages

Portuguese Native

English Professional working · technical & conversational

Selected Projects, Independent / Self-Hosted

SerraPass — tourism marketplace serrapass.com · launching commercially

Full-stack tourism platform for the Campos do Jordão region with an AI agent that recommends and sells tours. React + Django/FastAPI, self-hosted; built and shipped solo with LLM-assisted development.

Agentic trip-auditing engine in development

Self-hosted AI service that audits travel itineraries against a hybrid rules + live-research engine: multi-step LLM pipeline (parse → assemble → critic), deterministic rule matching, and web-search grounding as a tool. Python/FastAPI with a provider-agnostic LLM adapter (Claude/OpenAI); MapLibre front-end on a personal VPS.

Telos — self-hosted personal-ops platform telos.estigoni.com

One self-hosted app unifying scheduling, personal finance, and fitness tracking. Full-stack Python + React; fitness module public, remaining modules in private beta.