Bill Wester
VP Network Engineering at Galaxy
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Wester is a seasoned network engineering executive with nearly three decades of technical and leadership experience, currently leading design, build and automation of Galaxy datacenter networks as VP Network Engineering. He blends hands-on systems and product engineering—having written Terraform providers and SDKs in Go and Python at Juniper—with strategic roles across product, sales engineering and consulting for companies like F5, Extreme and Sun. An MBA-trained leader from Berkeley/Columbia and a CKA-certified technologist, Bill pairs business acumen with deep networking, storage and automation expertise. He has founded and led multiple services and product ventures, and unusually for an executive is a private pilot with an instrument rating, a detail that reflects his operational rigor and focus on safety.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA, MBA Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA at University of California, BerkeleyBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMBA MBA, MBA MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessMBA Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA, MBA Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA at Columbia University
English
Github Skills (32)
caching10
coredns10
gslb10
agility10
dnssec10
bind10
dns-record9
web-application-security9
documentation9
sphinx8
adc8
dns8
security8
web-application-firewall8
amazon7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bwesterf5/agility_edns0_18
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
f5devcentral/f5-agility-labs-dns
Jun 2017 - Apr 2021
F5 Agility Labs for DNS use cases such as GSLB, DNS Caching, Forward, Resolving and DNSSEC
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 10 months
f5-gtmcasesf5-agility-labsdns-serverf5-ltm
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