Chris Wopat
Senior Network Engineer at WiscNet
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Wopat is a Senior Network Engineer based in Madison, Wisconsin with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient networks and Unix-based infrastructure. He blends deep networking expertise across Cisco and Juniper platforms with system administration skills on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, and has long managed core services like BIND, Postfix and VMware in production. As Chief Network Administrator at SupraNet and now at WiscNet, he’s led interoperability efforts and large-scale event networks (Interop), demonstrating an ability to plan for peak-demand scenarios and complex multi-vendor environments. Chris pairs low-level troubleshooting with scripting and service integration (PHP, Perl, SQL) and a practical sense for telephony and mail systems, making him equally comfortable debugging packet flows or restoring critical services. Colleagues rely on him for steady operational leadership and pragmatic solutions that prioritize reliability and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (106)
truth10
python10
powerdns10
mouse10
django10
infrastructure-management10
netmiko10
keyboard10
netbox10
cisco10
network10
network-automation10
loss10
napalm10
synergy10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
falz/BGPalerter
Feb 2021 - Jan 2025
Software to monitor streams of BGP data. Pre-configured for real-time detection of visibility loss, RPKI invalid announcements, hijacks, and more.
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 years
announcementsmonitorreal-time-detectionstreamsbgp
falz/netbox-device-scripts
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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