Joe Clarke

Joe Clarke is a Cisco Distinguished Engineer. He has driven the development and adoption of many Cisco network management and automation products. He supports and promotes programmability features such as the Embedded Event Manager, Tcl, Python, NETCONF/RESTCONF, and YANG. He now explores how modern AI and technologies like the Model Context Protocol can fulfill the promise of network automation. Joe champions these skills to build the next generation of network engineers. Joe is a top-rated speaker at Cisco Live. He holds both the CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure and CCIE Automation certifications and helped create CCIE Automation. He also serves as technical chair of Cisco's career certification Continuing Education program. Joe co-authored Network Programmability with YANG: The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. He also co-wrote a chapter of Springer's Network-Embedded Management and Applications: Understanding Programmable Networking Infrastructur