Michael Schultheiss
Senior Security Analyst at Circle City IT
Fishers, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Schultheiss is a Senior Security Analyst and seasoned systems engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 20+-year career focus on Linux and Windows infrastructure, directory services, and multi-cloud platforms. He combines deep expertise in automation, IaC, containerization, and virtualization with a security-first mindset—having led vulnerability remediation, PAM automation, and system hardening at enterprise scale. Michael has driven large migrations and critical operations for higher education and major corporations, including stewarding the largest Banner ERP deployment and implementing IUanyWare for 140,000 users. As a fractional Chief Platform Engineer he partners with organizations from startups to Fortune 50s, bringing both tactical scripting skills (Python, Bash) and strategic leadership in Agile environments. Not obvious from the title: he blends platform engineering with security engineering day-to-day, automating privileged access and engineering workflows to improve consistency and reduce risk. Based in Fishers, Indiana, he remains active across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments while mentoring teams and shaping operational best practices.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer and Information Science, BS, Computer and Information Science at Purdue UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (9)
initramfs3
ubuntu3
zfs3
ansible2
lts2
linux2
debian2
vps2
spi1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
schultmc/spi-reimbursement-request
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
SPI Reimbursement Request
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
reimbursementrequestspi
schultmc/zfs-hetzner-vm
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
script to install Debian 11, 10 and Ubuntu 20 LTS and 18.04 LTS with ZFS root on Hetzner VPS
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
ltshetzneransiblelinuxzfs
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