Nick Stafford
Senior Network Engineer at MassDOT
Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Stafford is a Senior Network Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and optimizing complex LAN/WAN and cloud environments for enterprise and government clients. He blends deep network expertise—BGP, OSPF, VLANs, SD-WAN, Palo Alto/Fortinet firewalls—and VMware/AWS operations with practical cybersecurity tooling and automation using Python/Netmiko. Nick has a track record of multi-hundred-thousand-dollar cost savings through architecture consolidation and automation, and experience applying NERC/CIP security controls in critical infrastructure. A former Army radar repairman, he brings disciplined troubleshooting and low-level systems knowledge to infrastructure hardening and incident response. He also pursues hardware and software projects off-hours—building an Arduino self-driving car and dozens of personal websites—highlighting a wide curiosity that spans embedded systems to cloud security.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.3, Associate's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.3 at Santa Fe CollegeRadar Repairman, 94%, Radar Repairman, 94% at United States Army
Github Skills (150)
prediction-model10
ecology10
interoperability10
python10
prophet10
standardized10
categorical10
prediction10
forecast10
corona10
statistics10
forecasts10
data-access10
surveillance10
atmospheric-modelling10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
reichlab/reichlab.github.io
May 2015 - Jan 2023
The website for the Reich Lab @ UMass-Amherst.
Contributions:28 reviews, 317 commits, 121 PRs in 7 years 9 months
umass-amherstlab
nickreich/statsTeachR
Mar 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 1 year 3 months
statisticspythondata-sciencestatisticalmachine-learning
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