Allen Su, CCIE no. 13871 (Routing and Switching, Service Provider, Security), is currently a senior network and cloud security engineer at Microsoft, where he is driving innovative design and engineering of secure edge services and automation capabilities.
Allen is a networking industry veteran, having spent the last 15 years in various engineering and architectural roles. Prior to Microsoft, Allen was at Arista Networks, where he worked with and helped some marquee cloud providers build their cloud-scale networks and define and develop their network automation framework and strategy. Before his tenure at Arista, Allen spent a significant portion of his career at Cisco, learning the intricacies of networking, which he leveraged to design, architect, and build some of the world's largest networks.
I would like to thank Eric Chou for giving me the opportunity and privilege to review his hard work. It was a great learning journey for me personally, and I think I've gained way more from this journey than what I could give. Eric is the one who inspired me to begin into the network automation journey five years ago, and he continues to be an inspiration for me in this regard. I would also like to thank my wife, Cindy, for the support and love she has always given me, no matter what I set out to do. It would have been a lot tougher to review this book without her support and understanding.