Matt Tarkington
Leader, Technical Marketing Engineering, Cisco
Matt Tarkington is listed as Leader, Technical Marketing Engineering, Cisco. Matt is scheduled to speak at Cisco Live 2027 on 9 February 2027.
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About
Matt Tarkington is a Technical Leader in Cisco’s Data Center Networking business unit, specializing in automation, orchestration, programmability, and NetDevOps. With 14 years of experience designing, testing, validating, integrating, and troubleshooting solutions for Cisco’s largest enterprise customers, Matt supports a broad range of products within the portfolio. His expertise spans Nexus Dashboard, VXLAN EVPN, ACI, and Infrastructure as Code methodologies for network configuration and testing, leveraging tools such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, pyATS, Robot Framework, and YANG model–driven programmability. Matt holds CCIE #43434 in Data Center, among other certifications. He is a multi-time Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker and a member of the Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker Hall of Fame Elite.
Upcoming
Cisco Live 2027 8 February 2027 – 12 February 2027
- Nexus Dashboard VXLAN as Code - An Infrastructure as Code Approach with Network as Code and NetDevOps Speaker · 9 February 2027
- Automating NX-OS with NX-API and NetDevOps: Python, Ansible, and pyATS Speaker · 10 February 2027
- Unified Nexus Dashboard APIs: Automation, AgenticOps, and MCP in Action Speaker · 10 February 2027
- Nexus Dashboard Controller: An Interactive Conversation Speaker · 12 February 2027
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Matt at events on B2DB.
- Mike Wiebe Technical Leader Engineering · Cisco 2 shared sessions
- Victor Acevedo Consulting Engineering Technical Leader · Cisco 2 shared sessions
- Charly Coueffe Consulting Engineering Technical Leader · Cisco 1 shared session
- Karishma Gupta Leader, Product Management · Cisco 1 shared session