DKWT-NETTECH
Inspire the Next
Network Automation · Fixed Scope · Fixed Fee

Your network, automated.
Designed. Built. Handed over.

Fixed-scope automation sprints for service providers and network teams drowning in manual config work. Source-of-truth-driven config generation across Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and A10 — taken live in production, then handed to your team. No managed service. No lock-in.

0%
reduction in customer
onboarding effort
12h → 35m
per-customer onboarding,
before vs. after
0 hrs
senior engineering time
recovered every month
0 vendors
one pipeline — Juniper core,
Cisco PE, A10 CGNAT
What You Get

One sprint. A working pipeline.

Each engagement is a fixed-scope build: 4–6 weeks, one clearly defined automation outcome, delivered live in your production network.

Source-of-truth-driven config

Configuration generated straight from NetBox, Infoblox, and your other systems of record. IPs, VRFs, ASNs, VNIs, and route targets assigned automatically — no lookups, no duplicates.

Multi-vendor templating

Tested configuration templates spanning Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and A10 platforms — one workflow that speaks every dialect in your network.

AI-assisted build & validation

Modern AI tooling accelerates config generation and pre-deployment validation — every change checked before it touches a production device.

Fixed scope, fixed fee

Scope and price agreed before work starts. You know exactly what gets delivered and exactly what it costs. No hourly meters, no scope drift.

Handover, not lock-in

Documentation, templates, and pipeline handed to your team — any qualified engineer runs it after I leave. No managed service, no on-call dependency.

Built by an operator

CCIE with decades of service-provider and enterprise production experience. This isn't consulting theory — it's the work I've done on live carrier networks for years.

Case Study

12 hours of senior time → 35 minutes

A regional service provider onboarding 3–4 L3VPN customers per month across Juniper core, Cisco PE, and A10 CGNAT. One automation sprint changed the math.

Before — by hand
~12 hours
per customer · senior engineers only · stalls when they're unavailable
20×
faster
After — automated pipeline
~35 minutes
per customer · any qualified engineer · validated before deployment
each dot = 5 minutes of engineering time per customer onboarded
Resource gathering & assignmentIPs, VRF IDs, ASNs, VNIs, route targets
~5 hrs15 min
Multi-vendor config build3 vendors, 4 network areas
~5 hrs15 min
Review & validationduplicate checks, config review
~2 hrs5 min, automated
Resultkey-person dependency eliminated · assignment errors designed out
~12 hrs~35 min

What would this save your team?

Based on the measured before/after from this build — drag the slider.

4
senior engineer hours
saved per month
hours saved
per year
of a full-time engineer,
recovered
How It Works

Five steps. Four to six weeks.

A sprint has a beginning, a middle, and — unlike most consulting — an end.

1

Scope WEEK 0

We define one automation outcome worth having — a workflow, an onboarding pipeline, a config-generation problem. Fixed fee agreed before any work starts.

2

Design WEEK 1

Architecture mapped against your source-of-truth systems, vendor mix, and network areas. You see the design before anything is built.

3

Build WEEKS 2–4

Templates, integrations, and validation built and tested against your environment. AI-assisted where it accelerates, engineered everywhere.

4

Take live WEEK 5

Deployed into production alongside your team — not thrown over a wall. Validation gates ensure nothing touches a device unchecked.

5

Hand over WEEK 6

Documentation and a working pipeline your own engineers run from day one. I leave; the automation stays.

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About

Doug Robertson

Doug Robertson is a network architect and automation consultant (CCIE) with decades of service-provider and enterprise experience. He has designed, built, and taken live production networks and automation for large-scale operators — from multi-vendor core routing to source-of-truth-driven onboarding pipelines.

DKWT-NetTech packages that experience into engagements sized for teams the big consultancies won't touch: network teams of two to ten engineers who can't hire an automation engineer, but can't keep hand-building configs either.

BGP / MPLS / L3VPNEVPN / VXLANNetBox & InfobloxCisco · Juniper · Arista · A10AI-assisted tooling
Engagement Model

One number, agreed up front.

Fixed-scope sprints are priced by outcome, not by the hour.

$10k – $25k
typical fixed fee per sprint · 4–6 weeks
Discuss your scope

Stop hand-building configs.

One scoping call. If a sprint isn't the right fit for your network, I'll tell you that too.

Book a scoping call