Dan Schmidt
Senior Lab Network Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDan Schmidt is a Senior Lab Network Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating high-availability, high-speed lab networks and hyper-converged infrastructure across education, healthcare, and big tech. Based in Redmond and currently shaping AI-focused lab builds at Microsoft, he translates complex program requirements into physical designs, reviews Basis of Design documents, and coordinates multi-team deployments with a security-first mindset. He brings deep expertise in L2/L3 networking (MSTP, MLAG, BGP, OSPF), SONiC and vendor switching, Hyper-V/VMware clustering, RDMA-enabled storage, and automation via PowerShell. A proven leader and mentor, Dan has led hiring and final technical interviews, driven capacity planning and lifecycle projects, and routinely improves processes across teams. Outside day-to-day lab work he blends practical hardware skills (racking, PDUs, cabling) with an interest in crypto and a knack for turning ambiguous program needs into auditable, maintainable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School General Studies, High School General Studies at Necedah Area School DistrictBachelor of Science (BS) Major: Information Technology Management; Minor: Project Management; Minor: Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BS) Major: Information Technology Management; Minor: Project Management; Minor: Business Administration at University of Wisconsin-Stout
English, Spanish, java, powershell, html/css
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Github Skills (10)
sha10
crc9
cryptanalysis9
shamir-secret-sharing9
hash-functions9
padding9
collision8
cli7
md57
command-line-tool7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
danshumow-msft/FixBadRsaEncryption
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
allseenalliance/core-alljoyn
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:41 commits in 5 months
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