Munich-based · MSc Info Security · Trusted by Cisco DevNet

Production AI for the network.
Not slideware.

We help enterprise NetOps and SOC teams ship AI agents that actually run in production — readiness assessments, hands-on team training, and 8-week pilots co-built with a network architect who hosts the Cisco DevNet podcast.

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Where we show up

The gap we close

Your CTO wants an AI strategy. Your NOC wants fewer pages. Both are right.

Most enterprise AI projects in network and security operations stall at the same three walls. We've shipped past each of them with real customers running real production traffic.

01 / Strategy

The deck looks great. The pilot never lands.

Vendor demos win the board meeting. Six months later there's no integration with your CMDB, your SIEM, or your change management. We build to your stack from day one.

02 / Team

Your engineers were trained on yesterday's automation.

Ansible playbooks and Python scripts don't translate to agent-based architectures, MCP, or LLM orchestration. We retrain your existing team — no replacement, no consultant dependency.

03 / Risk

Nothing autonomous can touch production. Yet.

Every pilot we run includes a verification loop and explicit guardrails. Your engineers stay in the approval path. We don't sell magic; we ship metrics.

Three ways to engage

Pick the scope that fits where you are.

Every engagement is fixed-scope and timeline-bound. No retainers, no scope creep, no consultant-by-the-hour billing.

AI Consultancy

Readiness assessment, vendor selection, and an AI-NetOps roadmap your board can defend.

Scope Fixed Timeline 2–4 weeks Output Roadmap doc
  • AI-NetOps readiness scoring across people, process, data, tools
  • Vendor shortlist with honest tradeoffs — not a referral deck
  • 12-month roadmap mapped to your existing OKRs
  • Board-ready executive summary
Discuss your assessment

AI Training

Custom team training on Claude Code, AI agents, and NetOps automation — for the engineers who'll own the system.

Scope Per-cohort Timeline 1–3 days Format On-site / remote
  • Hands-on labs using your own network topology and incident data
  • Agent-based architecture, MCP integration, fine-tuning patterns
  • Prompt engineering and LLM evaluation for network use cases
  • Cohort sizes 6–20 engineers; SME track for principals
Plan a cohort

Proof, not promises

Live on Cisco DevNet. Documented. Watchable.

We don't ask for trust on a vendor's word. The system in the talk below resolves an OSPF outage in 8 seconds — recorded, unedited.

Cisco DevNet · October 2024

Live demo: 5-agent system resolves an OSPF incident in 8 seconds

Eduard Dulharu walks through a real multi-agent troubleshooting workflow using ACP, A2A, and MCP standards — on the official Cisco DevNet podcast.

8–13s
From alert to root cause + proposed fix
Five specialized agents collaborating on OSPF, BGP, and security incidents.
5
Specialized AI agents per deployment
Team Leader · Stability · Troubleshooting · Security · Virtual Architect
100%
Human-in-loop on production actions
Verification loops on every change. No autonomous writes without approval.
Upcoming · Hands-on workshop

AutoCon 5 · Munich · June 9, 2026

From Alert to Action: building a 5-agent AI system that cuts MTTR.

A 4-hour intensive at the Network Automation Forum's flagship event. Attendees operate a live 5-agent system against a real multi-vendor EVE-NG topology, inject production-grade faults, and trace the full agent reasoning chain end-to-end.

Built on the A2A protocol, a Neo4j knowledge graph, and a LangChain RAG layer. Participants extend the system by wiring their own specialist agent using provided scaffolding — you leave with code that runs.

Session WS:C2 — Workshop
When Tue June 9, 2026 · 09:00–13:00
Venue The Westin Grand München
Proctor Eduard Dulharu · vExpertAI GmbH
Level Intermediate · Networking, Linux, Python
Format Live multi-vendor EVE-NG lab
A2A protocol Neo4j LangChain RAG Multi-vendor

Who the workshop is for

  • Automation leads scoping their first agentic system
  • SREs evaluating LLMs for incident triage and root-cause
  • Architects pressure-testing A2A and graph-RAG for NetOps

What you leave with

  • A working 5-agent system you can run locally after the session
  • A specialist agent you wired yourself on top of provided scaffolding
  • Hands-on time tracing the full agent reasoning chain on a real production-grade fault
See the AutoCon 5 program

How a pilot actually runs

No "Discover → Imagine → Reimagine."

Concrete steps. Each one ends with a deliverable you keep.

WEEK 1

Scoping & success metrics

Two workshops with your NetOps/SOC leads. We leave with a one-page scope, success metrics in writing, and a data-access checklist.

WEEK 2-3

Environment & agents

Agent architecture stood up in your lab or staging. CMDB, SIEM, and ticketing integrations wired with read-only access first.

WEEK 4-7

Iterate on real incidents

Agents shadow your team on real production incidents. We refine prompts, guardrails, and approval flows weekly with your engineers in the loop.

WEEK 8

Handoff & ownership

System runs autonomously within guardrails. Your team owns it — runbooks, observability, retraining playbooks transferred. We're available, not required.

Pre-built agent capabilities

Five proven agent patterns you don't have to invent.

Every pilot starts from one or more of these — composed, customized, and integrated into your environment.

01 · SECURITY

Security Validation

Real-time CVE correlation, automated risk scoring, compliance reporting that holds up in audit.

02 · TWIN

Digital Twin

Test network changes against a live replica before they touch production. Zero-risk what-if simulation.

03 · ARCH

Virtual Architect

24/7 design guidance grounded in your topology, vendors, and standards. Not generic chatbot advice.

04 · NOC

Virtual NOC

Autonomous monitoring, predictive maintenance, and self-healing patterns with human approval gates.

05 · ASSIST

Conversational Assistant

Plain-English queries across your CMDB, SIEM, and telemetry. One-click remediation with rollback.

Self-assessment · 5 minutes

Get the AI-NetOps Readiness Scorecard.

12 questions covering data, tooling, team skills, and risk tolerance. You'll get a numeric score, the L1–L4 maturity band you sit in, and a one-page playbook for the next 90 days. Built from 200+ enterprise assessments.

No demo follow-up unless you ask for one. We hate that pattern too.

We'll email you the scorecard PDF + a private Typeform link. GDPR-compliant; no resale, no spam.

Free · 19 lessons · 3 tiers · basic → advanced · self-paced

vExpertAI Academy

From "3 AM, 14,000 log lines" to a production multi-agent NOC copilot. Three tiers, twenty lessons, written for engineers who already run real networks. Start free, go deep when you're ready.

Basic

Foundations · 8 chapters · self-paced · no signup

AI-curious network engineers
CH 01 Basic 3h

Foundations

When the math is enough

It's 3 AM and 14,000 log lines.

Cluster 200 syslog lines into 5 groups; surface the anomalies with k-means + TF-IDF.

python sklearn TF-IDF k-means
CH 02 Basic 3h

Deep Learning

When the machine needs to understand

LLMs hallucinate my config syntax.

Tokenize Cisco configs, embed networking phrases, watch synonyms cluster in vector space.

transformers embeddings attention
CH 03 Basic 3h

Fine-tuning

When the base model is half-blind to your network

My network's vocab isn't in any model.

LoRA-fine-tune DistilBERT on a synthetic 5-class log-intent dataset; watch accuracy climb from random to 90%+.

LoRA DistilBERT HuggingFace
CH 04 Basic 3h

LLM Apps

When the model needs to look things up

10,000 config files, no way to search them.

Hand-build a RAG pipeline over 20 device configs — chunking, embedding, retrieval, optional generation.

RAG chunking retrieval
CH 05 Basic 3h

Agents

When the model needs to act

Automating broken processes at high speed.

Run a tool-using agent loop with 5 tools and two safety patterns: dry-run + confirmation token.

tool calling agent loop safety
CH 06 Basic 3h

MCP & Skills

The protocol that makes your tools portable

Vendor APIs are inconsistent; tool reuse is impossible.

Build MCP-shaped tools that hide Cisco / Juniper / Arista differences behind a unified interface.

MCP multi-vendor netmiko
CH 07 Basic 3h

Claude Code

The daily-driver container for everything we built

Now that I know AI, what do I use daily?

Set up Claude Code with CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, and an MCP server. Run an on-call workflow end-to-end.

Claude Code hooks skills
CH 08 Basic 3h

Full-stack Python

Ship something your team can click on

I'm a CLI engineer, not a developer.

Streamlit web dashboard for semantic device search; expose via ngrok. Share with one teammate.

Streamlit ngrok python
Intermediate

Full curriculum · 6 modules · 72 hours · CV-grade transformation

Engineers committing to the craft
M 01 Intermediate 12h

Python for NetOps

When the keyboard isn't enough

I can't SSH into 50 boxes one at a time anymore.

Back up running-configs from 20 IOS/NX-OS/Junos devices with netmiko; retry on timeout, commit each version to Git.

python netmiko ipaddress regex
M 02 Intermediate 9h

Data Wrangling & Exploration

When the counter is the truth

My 32-bit interface counter rolled over and the dashboard lied.

Detect BGP flaps across 30 days of state-change logs from 50 routers; rank the worst offenders with a 1-hour rolling window.

pandas numpy matplotlib parquet
M 03 Intermediate 11h

ML Foundations (Classical)

When the model has to defend itself

The model says P1 with 95% confidence and it's wrong half the time.

Train an XGBoost severity classifier on 50K incidents; calibrate with isotonic regression; explain a single prediction with SHAP.

sklearn xgboost shap hdbscan
M 04 Intermediate 14h

Deep Learning & NLP/LLMs

When the model needs the runbook

The LLM doesn't know my topology and won't admit it.

Stand up a hybrid RAG over 500 runbooks + 6 months of postmortems; beat BM25 by 40% on MRR with cross-encoder reranking.

pytorch transformers qdrant graphrag
M 05 Intermediate 16h

Agentic AI & Frameworks

When the LLM has to act

I want an agent to fix BGP without rebooting the wrong router.

Build a 3-agent Analyzer/Planner/Executor crew in CrewAI with 5 tools, Pydantic guardrails, and HITL on state-changing actions.

crewai langgraph mcp react
M 06 Intermediate 10h

Production Deployment & MLOps

When the demo meets 100 operators

The notebook worked. The 100-user load test didn't.

Front the M5 crew with a FastAPI gateway, tiered routing, Redis prompt cache, and PostgresSaver; cut cost-per-query 60-80%.

vllm fastapi redis opik
Advanced

Specialist tracks + production capstones · senior engineers & architects

Portfolio-grade artifacts
LC Advanced 18h

LangChain Ecosystem Track

When the framework is on the interview

Every vendor pitch and hiring loop assumes I read LangGraph code.

Port the C1 CrewAI crew to a LangGraph StateGraph with checkpointer and interrupt_before; match eval scores; deploy via LangServe.

langgraph lcel langsmith langserve
CR Advanced 18h

CrewAI Ecosystem Track

When sequential isn't enough

Crew(Process.sequential) hits a wall the day production does.

Replace a sequential Crew with a Flow using @start/@listen/@router; add AgentOps traces and a VCR-based regression test that catches a 10% quality drop.

crewai flows agentops pydantic
C 01 Advanced 4h

Capstone C1 — MCP-Wrapped GraphRAG

When the retriever needs to be a citizen

My retriever is a Python import; no other agent can call it.

Wrap the M4 GraphRAG retriever as a FastMCP server with 4 tools + 2 resources; wire it into the M5 crew; benchmark direct vs MCP vs MCP+cache on 20 scenarios.

mcp fastmcp crewai graphrag
C 02 Advanced 4h

Capstone C2 — Multi-Tenant LLM Gateway

When five tenants share one model

Tenant A's cache hit just answered tenant B's question.

Ship a FastAPI gateway with per-tenant cache namespaces, token-bucket quotas, tiered routing, and circuit breakers; load-test 100 operators across 4 routing strategies.

fastapi redis locust circuit-breaker
C 03 Advanced 8h

Capstone C3 — End-to-End NOC Copilot

When the hiring manager wants to see the trace

I have a notebook and no story about cost, drift, or rollback.

QLoRA fine-tune Llama-3.1-8B on 5,000 incident summaries; serve via Ollama as a local_ft tier; wire Opik traces gateway-to-MCP; ship a CI eval gate that blocks regressions.

qlora ollama opik streamlit

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Chapter 01 hits your inbox now · chapters 02–08 weekly · notebook with each. No spam, GDPR-compliant.

Or book a 30-min call with Eduard before you start.

Free · 90 minutes · Live + Q&A

Build AI-powered network automation from scratch.

The exact agent architecture from the Cisco DevNet demo — how it's designed, what each agent does, and how to deploy a minimal version in your own lab. No PhD required, no vendor pitch, no sales follow-up.

  • Design multi-agent architectures using ACP, A2A, and MCP
  • Build specialized agents with fine-tuned LLMs for network diagnostics
  • Integrate real network devices with autonomous troubleshooting workflows
  • Deploy production-ready systems that cut MTTR from hours to seconds
Duration 90 minutes
Format Live workshop + Q&A
Price €0 — no upsell
For Network & security engineers

Honest fit check

Who this is for — and who it isn't.

The fastest way to a good engagement is being honest about a bad one. Here's how we filter.

This is for you if

  • You run an enterprise NOC or SOC with dedicated network/security engineers
  • You have at least one real automation initiative (Ansible, Python, ITSM workflows) already in production
  • Your board has asked for an "AI strategy" and you need something defensible
  • You want a partner, not a contractor — your team owns the system after handoff
  • You're comfortable agreeing to success metrics in writing before week 2

This isn't for you if

  • You're looking for generic "AI literacy" or ChatGPT-for-business workshops
  • You want to resell us as a white-label AI vendor
  • You expect autonomous production actions without human-in-loop guardrails
  • You're a sub-50-person shop without dedicated network engineering — start with our free masterclass instead
  • You need a fixed-bid quote without a discovery call. Our work depends on your environment.
ED

Who you'll work with

Eduard Dulharu — founder, principal consultant.

20+ years in enterprise networking, MSc Information Security. Featured on the Cisco DevNet Create Live podcast demonstrating production AI agents resolving OSPF incidents in seconds. Author of the Medium piece "From 4-Hour Outages to 8-Second Resolutions" on real multi-agent system design.

Pilots and assessments are led personally. Training cohorts include senior collaborators — network architects and enterprise solutions architects with deep multi-vendor experience. No outsourcing, no bait-and-switch to junior staff.

MSc Information Security Cisco DevNet podcast guest vExpertAI GmbH founder 20+ yrs enterprise NetOps Munich · EU GDPR
Separate offering · Executive track

CEO AI Mentorship — 12 weeks, by application

Private 1:1 mentorship for CEOs and Board members building an AI-first operating model. Strategic roadmap, vendor evaluation, organizational design, and accountability check-ins. Not a course; an advisory relationship.

Learn more

Pre-empting the obvious

What people actually ask before booking the call.

How is this different from a Big-4 firm pitching AI?+
Big-4 sells decks. We ship running systems. Our principal has been in your operations center, has run real enterprise networks, and demos working agents live on the Cisco DevNet podcast. You won't get a 200-page deliverable; you'll get a deployed pilot.
What does a pilot cost?+
We don't publish numbers because every environment is different — integrations, data access, success metrics, and team size all change scope. We can give you a budget range in the first 15 minutes of the discovery call.
Why a network engineer building AI consulting?+
Because most "AI in networking" projects fail at the integration layer — CMDB, telemetry, change management, SIEM. A senior network architect understands that layer. An AI engineer who's never touched OSPF doesn't. The credibility cost of selling unsound network advice is too high to fake.
Will agents have write access to production?+
Not without explicit per-action approval until your team votes to remove the gate. Even then, every action is logged, every change is reversible, and every workflow has a verification loop. We build guardrails before we build autonomy.
Do you work with non-Cisco environments?+
Yes. Our agents support multi-vendor environments (Juniper, Arista, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, and more). Cisco is overrepresented in our public demos because that's where we have the deepest expertise — not a requirement.
Where is data stored? Are you GDPR-compliant?+
vExpertAI GmbH is a German company under full GDPR. By default no operational data leaves your environment — agents run in your cloud or on-prem. When we use hosted LLMs, it's via your contracts (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock) or with explicit DPA addenda. EU-hosted options available for every layer.
What happens after the pilot?+
Your team owns the system. We hand over the runbook, observability dashboards, and retraining playbook. Continued support is optional, retainer-free, billed per engagement. Most clients add a quarterly review and a follow-on training cohort — but neither is required.

Next step · 30 minutes

One call. We'll know if we can help by the end of it.

No deck, no qualifying-questions interrogation. You describe your environment, your timeline, and what your board is asking for. We tell you whether a pilot, an assessment, or honestly someone else is the right fit.

Or email Eduard directly
Risk-shared pilots. Success metrics agreed in writing in week 1. If we miss them by week 8, the final milestone payment is waived.