Matthew Chau
Network Security Defense Engineer II at Verizon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Chau is a Network Security Defense Engineer with eight years of experience hardening and operating critical infrastructure across enterprise and municipal environments. Currently safeguarding management and operational technology networks at Verizon, he brings deep hands-on expertise in proxy, firewall, DNS, and remote access/SSL VPN systems. His background spans 5G FWA operations and SecOps engineering for New York City, reflecting an ability to bridge field network repair, resilience planning, and centralized security controls. A Baruch College graduate in Information Assurance, he combines practical incident-facing skills with strategic infrastructure design to reduce risk in complex, high-availability environments. Notably, he moves comfortably between frontline network operations and security architecture, making him effective at translating operational constraints into secure, maintainable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Baruch CollegeAdvanced Regents High School Diploma, Advanced Regents High School Diploma at Brooklyn Technical High School
Github Skills (12)
tiddlywiki9
nlp8
turkish8
python7
music-generation4
music4
midi3
dplyr2
deep-learning2
audio2
diffusion-models2
computer-vision1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MatthewChau99/GYMO
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
A web app for sharing thoughts, experiences and expertise related to fitness activities.
Contributions:97 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
reactthoughtsfitnesssharingexperiences
ldjmgls/MaskFaceRecog
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Computer Vision Final Project
Contributions:20 pushes in 1 month
pythonvisiondeep-learningcomputer-visioncomputervision
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