Speaker
Description
This talk is a short, practical story about a network engineer who wanted repeatable ECMP troubleshooting and also wanted to learn a new programming language. Starting from familiar tools (traceroute, Wireshark, RFCs), I built a small ECMP‑aware probing tool and translated manual workflows into code.
The focus is less on the tool itself and more on the method: start in a domain you trust, measure everything, and build in small slices. I’ll share the learning process I followed: start with familiar tools, test one change at a time, explain results to yourself as you go, and how I got unstuck when progress stalled.
Attendees will leave with concrete, low‑risk ways to start small software projects in their own networking work: how to pick a problem, how to validate changes, and how to keep momentum even when day‑to‑day priorities shift.
