Federico Olivieri - Network Automation Engineer, Ticketmaster

What's your proudest work-related achievement of the last 12 months?
Network as code - built an entire CI/CD stack for configuration automation of an entire network.
What's the number one skill today's IT leaders need?
Coding - Python.
How many people work in IT in your organisation?
1,000.
What's your top priority for the next 12 months?
Learning new code language - Java.
What's your annual IT budget?
I have no budget.
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