About Elevate Networks Academy
An engineering academy for real-world network engineers.
Elevate Networks Academy (ENA) is an engineering academy. We exist to help engineers operate production environments — to build the skills and confidence required to operate real networks. We are not a certification dump, a course catalogue, or a technology showcase. We develop engineers.
Why ENA Exists
Many engineers pass certification exams yet still struggle to operate production networks, troubleshoot under pressure, make sound engineering decisions, and automate infrastructure.
ENA exists to close that gap — between certification success and real engineering competence. We focus on the capability employers actually need: engineers who can run, diagnose, and improve the networks a business depends on.
What We Develop Engineers To Operate
Enterprise Infrastructure
Design, operate, and troubleshoot the enterprise networks organisations run on — routing, switching, and services at production scale.
Service Provider
Engineer the large-scale routing, transport, and services networks that carriers and ISPs depend on.
Data Center
Build and automate modern data center fabrics — from ACI to scalable, programmable data center networking.
Automation
Move from manual configuration to repeatable, tested network automation and NetDevOps.
The ENA Philosophy
Think like an engineer. Lead with confidence.
We don't prepare students to pass exams. We develop them to engineer — through a repeatable learning loop: Ground → Build → Operate → Break → Automate, run again at higher altitude each time. Judgment runs through every stage; ownership is the outcome.
Founded by Simba Chipango
CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure #56322 · 18+ years
ENA was founded by Simba Chipango, a Network Consulting Engineer and CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure (#56322) with over 18 years across enterprise and service provider environments — designing, operating, troubleshooting, and automating large-scale networks.
That experience shapes how ENA teaches: practical, production-grounded, and automation-forward. But the academy, its method, and its students are the story — Simba's role is to make that engineering judgment teachable.
What Students Can Expect
- Build real-world skills you can apply in production environments.
- Troubleshoot with confidence — diagnose under uncertainty, methodically.
- Develop automation and NetDevOps capability, not just configuration habits.
- Learn through mentorship from a practising engineer.
- Progress from fundamentals to expert-level engineering — and ownership.