Dan Schmidt
Senior Network Engineer at State of Wyoming
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Schmidt is a Senior Network Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale government and media networks, specializing in MPLS/VPLS, Nexus/NX-OS, Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, and HP platforms. At the State of Wyoming he built resilient MPLS/VPLS infrastructures, automated network changes with CGI Python tooling, and designed an open-source dot1x solution for port-based authentication. Previously at Echostar he debugged multicast SSM deployments, developed multicast tracking and tacacs tooling, and worked with IOS-XR and WAN emulation for video troubleshooting. Known for bridging network architecture with practical automation, he combines deep protocol knowledge with scripting to reduce operational risk and accelerate change. Based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, he holds a B.S. in Computer Science and brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to large enterprise networks.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.5, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.5 at Saginaw Valley State University
Github Skills (129)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
helpdeskdan/ztp-watcher
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Supplement to FreeZTP service to help with switch upgrades.
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
supplementswitchupgrades
helpdeskdan/do_auth
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 8 months
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