Matthew Wollenweber
Principal Security Engineer at Insomniac Technologies
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Wollenweber is a Principal Security Engineer with over 15 years in security operations, incident response, and tool development, currently at Axonius and a founder of Insomniac Technologies. He combines deep practical experience—from configuring large-scale detection tooling like the Modern Honey Network to leading security programs at universities and enterprises—with a developer’s mindset for building repeatable, platform-aware installation and automation scripts. Matthew’s background spans research and leadership roles at Anomali, Gartner, and GWU, and he brings a pragmatic focus on solving real-world threats through engineering rather than theory. Based in New Orleans, he’s also a privacy advocate and organizer whose outside interests—brown-belt Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and bulldog rescue—reflect a disciplined, community-minded approach to tough problems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityCertificate in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Certificate in Cyber Security, Computer Science at The George Washington UniversityBS, Computer Science and Mathematics, BS, Computer Science and Mathematics at Loyola University Maryland
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Github Skills (13)
script10
bash10
sup10
supervisord10
devops10
debian10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
nginx9
fest8
python8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pwnlandia/mhn
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Modern Honey Network
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:57 commits, 21 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew's commits primarily focus on setting up and configuring the installation process for the Modern Honey Network (MHN) on different operating systems (RHEL/CentOS and Debian). They made significant changes to the installation scripts, particularly `install_mhnserver.sh`, `install_hpfeeds.sh`, and `install_mnemosyne.sh`, adding platform-specific installation steps, including python versioning and supervisor configurations. Furthermore, they addressed OS-specific configurations for the web server (nginx) and database (MongoDB), ensuring the proper deployment and integration of various MHN components.
golangblockchainhoney
mwollenweber/BlockManager
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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