From SOAR to Agents: Why Practical Automation Has to Survive Contact with Real Infrastructure @PacketPushersNetwork
From SOAR to Agents: Why Practical Automation Has to Survive Contact with Real Infrastructure  @PacketPushersNetwork
Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Eyvonne Sharp and William Collins speak with Sif Baksh, Principal Solutions Architect at Tines, to discuss the power of automation. Sif shares some personal stories of how he has been able to use automation to innovate and modernize networking operations. They also discuss the importance of learning AI and using it as a tool, how a combination of a workflow automation and AI can give you a more deterministic result, and the necessity for vendor customer partnerships.

Sif Baksh on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/sifbaksh

Sif Baksh’s Website - sifbaksh.com

Sif Baksh’s InfoBlox Blog - infoblox.com/blog/author/sif-baksh

Sif Baksh on YouTube - youtube.com/@SifBaksh

Sif Baksh on GitHub - github.com/seefor

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