Nico Vibert is a senior staff technical marketing engineer at Isovalent, the company behind the open source cloud native solution Cilium. Nico previously worked in many different roles — operations and support, design and architecture, and technical pre-sales — at companies such as HashiCorp, VMware and Cisco. In his current role, Nico focuses primarily on creating content to make networking a more approachable field and regularly speaks at events like KubeCon, VMworldand Cisco Live. Nico has held over 15 networking certifications, including the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE (# 22990). Nico is now the lead subject matter expert on the Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) certification. Nico is passionate about intentional diversity and inclusion initiatives and is chief DEI officer at the Open Technology organization OpenUK.