Who is TNOPs?

TNOps was conceived by Scott Robohn, one of the cofounders of the Network Automation Forum (NAF), and one of the internet plumbers who built some of the largest networks in the world. Scott is the host of the TNOps podcast.

Through a career at Bell Atlantic (Verizon), Juniper, Cisco, and Nokia focused on tier-1 carriers and US Federal customers, Scott has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of how networks are really built, (sometimes) documented, and operated.

TNOps co-founder James Dirksen was first thrown in the lions den of secure networking when his first boss (Scott Robohn, see above) told him he was now the network administrator for DoD networks in the Pentagon. At the time James did not own a computer, but was armed with a very useful Biochem degree. What could go wrong.

Since then, James as worked at multiple cybersecurity start-ups which have then been sold to Fortune 1000 companies, been an “Entrepreneur in Residence” on DARPA intellectual property transition projects, and founded and ran Solutional which incubates SaaS companies from ideation through fundraising, development, and MVP.