Steve Noble is a highly experienced network engineer with over 30 years of experience in the industry. Throughout his career, Noble has worked with a range of companies, providing advisory services and consulting on topics such as network architecture, test design/execution, network virtualization, and data center design. Noble has held positions at top-tier companies such as Cisco Systems, Procket Networks, and Amazon. He has also worked as a technical advisor, evangelist, and architect for other organizations in the networking space.

More recently, Noble has worked on open-source networking projects such as Open Network Linux and the LF DENT project. He also served as the President of the Board of Trustees at Network Device Education Foundation, Inc (NetDEF), where he focused on supporting open source projects such as FRR and open networking.

Noble's expertise encompasses network architecture, network administration, systems testing, project management, high-level customer support, team management, company building, IPv6 transition technologies, product direction, virtualization, NFV, SDN (OpenDaylight, ONOS, OpenContrail, OpenFlow), and OpenStack.