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John Capobianco serves as the Head of AI & Developer Relations at Itential, bringing over two decades of technical experience to his role at the intersection of network automation and artificial intelligence. An author, educator, and veteran IT professional, he has previously held key leadership positions including Head of Developer Relations at Selector AI and AI Technical Leader for Cisco Secure. Throughout his career, which also includes serving as a Senior Network Architect for the Canadian Parliament, he has focused on helping large enterprises safely adopt AI-driven operations within mission-critical, highly regulated infrastructure environments.
Iโve been saying for ten years that network automation was three years away from being the only way to do things. Every year I moved the goalposts, because the data never caught up to the rhetoric. After a decade of scripts, YAML, Ansible, Terraform, and every NetDevOps framework we could throw at the problem, roughly [โฆ]
Aug 31, 2026 ยท 3 min