Rickard Körkkö, CCNP (Routing and Switching) and Cisco Network Programmability Design and Implementation Specialist, is a NetOps consultant at SDNit, where he's part of a group of experienced technical specialists with a great interest in and focus on emerging network technologies. His daily work includes working with orchestration tools such as Ansible to manage network devices. He's a self-taught programmer with a primary focus on Python. He has also served as a technical reviewer for the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Third Edition by Mark G. Sobell.