Richard Wilhite
Senior Staff Security Engineer at Cisco
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Wilhite is a Senior Staff Security Engineer with nine years of focused experience designing and automating security services across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. He has led Splunk-centered security engineering for FedRAMP IL2/High workloads, building automation, WAF and EDR deployments, and tuning eBPF-based Linux agents for substantial performance gains. Comfortable across Linux and Windows stacks, he blends IAM, host intrusion detection, FIM, NSM, and vulnerability management with infrastructure as code using Terraform/Terragrunt and GitLab CI. Richard’s background includes large-scale systems administration and identity migrations, having replaced legacy LDAP with freeIPA and driven storage and backup modernizations. He pairs hands-on scripting and Puppet/Ansible work with strategic project leadership—often translating complex compliance requirements into repeatable automation. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, he brings a pragmatic security-first mindset and a track record of turning noisy telemetry into actionable, scalable controls.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
AAS Information Technology, AAS Information Technology at Johnson County Community College
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Github Skills (18)
rootkit7
okta7
ossec7
compliance6
perl6
integrity6
security6
intrusion-detection5
idm5
monitoring4
log-analysis4
command-line-tool4
pci-dss4
command-line3
signal3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
richard-wilhite/OAM
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Command line management for Okta
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 9 months
command-line-toolcommandline-tooloktacommand-linecli
richard-wilhite/dotnetcore-demo
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
This repository will be used to hold a sample dotnetcore razor page demo application.
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
razordotnetcsharpdemo-pagedotnetcore
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