Steven Johnston

Smart tools for
network engineers.

Internal-shaped tools that fold AI into the spots where network engineers lose hours. Auditors that cite the control they break. Terminals that pair-program. Design agents that argue with themselves. Chat that deploys Azure. Digital twins that propose the fix and wait for your nod.

Work

08 tools ↓
№ 01 In active use
GLADIUS preview
AI Network Auditor
GLADIUS

An autonomous Cisco security auditor. Tell it an IP. It SSHes in, runs hardening checks, cross-references NIST 800-53 and CIS, looks up live CVEs, and produces the report. No checklists, no scripts.

Claude Sonnet 4.6MCPFastAPIChromaDB +5
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№ 02 In active use
SHELLMATE preview
Terminal + AI Copilot
SHELLMATE

A split-screen, multi-tab web terminal for network engineers, SSH and serial, with an AI copilot that watches your live session and suggests the right command before you Alt-Tab to ChatGPT. Five backends, cloud or local.

PythonFastAPIxterm.jsparamiko +7
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№ 03 Live
CISCO API NAVIGATOR preview
Cisco DevNet API Chat
CISCO API NAVIGATOR

A streaming chat UI for Cisco's DevNet Content Search MCP. Ask anything about Meraki or Catalyst Center APIs and get a token-streamed answer with real operation IDs and doc URLs. Hosted on a single Worker.

Cloudflare WorkersWorkers AILlama 3.3 70BMCP +2
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№ 04 Active build
PARITY preview
Network Digital Twin
PARITY

A digital twin of your network built from live pyATS snapshots, analysed by a tiered swarm of AI agents (Ollama → Haiku → Sonnet → Opus on escalation). Fixes are proposed, human-approved, executed via pyATS, then verified closed-loop.

PythonFastAPIpyATSLangGraph +8
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№ 05 In active use
ARCHIE preview
AI Network Design Studio
ARCHIE

Upload a customer brief, even a photo of the whiteboard, and designer/critic agent pairs argue their way to a cited network design. A build agent then turns it into Containerlab, GNS3, and draw.io artifacts.

PythonFastAPIChromaDBClaude +6
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№ 06 In active use
CLOUDFORGE preview
Chat-to-Azure IaC
CLOUDFORGE

Design Azure architecture in chat. Claude draws the topology on a live canvas, writes the Bicep, and pushes it with one click, then tears it down on a schedule so the lab never bills overnight.

React 19React FlowFastifyClaude Opus +6
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№ 07 In daily use
DOCKERMATE preview
Docker Dashboard + AI Ops
DOCKERMATE

A self-hosted Docker dashboard with a chatbot that can actually do things: list, inspect, pull, restart, exec. Tiles pulse when a registry digest says an image is stale. Compose-aware upgrades keep your env, volumes, and networks.

Node.jsExpressdockerodeOpenAI GPT-4o-mini +2
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№ 08 Active build
WEBEX MIGRATE preview
CUCM → Webex Calling
WEBEX MIGRATE

Pulls telephony config out of on-prem CUCM, live over AXL or from BAT/Unity CSVs, dry-runs every object against the target Webex org, then pushes in dependency order. Rollback deletes exactly what it created, in reverse.

TypeScriptHonoReactCloudflare Workers +6
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Stack

Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare KVWorkers AIAstroReactTypeScriptTailwindPythonFastAPILangGraphMCPClaudeDeepSeekOpenAIxAI GrokOllamapyATSPostgreSQLChromaDBDocker
Get in touch
stevie.johnston@gmail.com
Glasgow, Scotland
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