Chris Weakland
Network Engineer IV at University of Maryland Medical System
Catonsville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Weakland is a seasoned network engineer with 9+ years in formal roles and over two decades of hands-on experience securing and operating large-scale federal and commercial networks. He currently architects and manages networking and security for a 15-hospital system across Maryland, operating and tuning 80+ Cisco ASA/FTD firewalls, F5 LTM/GTM, Infoblox DNS, and enterprise wireless via Cisco ISE. Comfortable across Windows AD and Linux environments, he also maintains Ubuntu-based monitoring and management stacks (LibreNMS, NFSEN, SyslogNG, Rancid) that tie operational telemetry to security posture. His background includes 24/7 hosting operations at Verizon and federal security work at Lockheed Martin/CMS, giving him deep incident response and policy-enforcement experience. Known for blending practical network engineering with security-first thinking, he often implements pragmatic automation and monitoring to reduce mean time to detect and remediate issues.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Technology/Technician, Bachelor's degree, Industrial Technology/Technician at East Carolina University
Github Skills (101)
controller10
python10
wave10
automation10
home-assistant10
rtl-sdr10
mqtt10
laravel10
home-automation10
garden10
iot10
zwave10
network10
snmp10
internet-of-things10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cweakland/open-zwave
Dec 2017 - Jan 2019
a C++ library to control Z-Wave Networks via a USB Z-Wave Controller.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cppcontrollerc-libraryusbwave
sascha432/BLE-iBeacon
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 11 months
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