Robert Waight
Senior Manager, Curriculum Infrastructure at Elastic
Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Waight is a Principal Security Education Architect with a blended 15+ years of corporate and military information security background and seven years focused in Elastic, where he progressed from Senior Support Engineer to Principal since 2018. He designs and delivers security education, integration guidance, and hands-on technical solutions for large-scale Elastic Stack and cloud deployments, translating complex detection and hardening practices into usable training and runbooks. His Army National Guard service as a Chief Warrant Officer and systems architect gives him rare operational experience securing tactical networks, developing IA/CND programs, and leading teams under mission conditions. Robert pairs deep compliance and automation experience from roles at IBM, Gordmans, and LogRhythm with practical incident troubleshooting and enterprise security engineering. Known for turning rigorous security frameworks into repeatable processes, he brings a practitioner's credibility to developer and operator audiences. Based in Illinois, he combines technical leadership with an educator’s focus on measurable, audit-ready outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree, Information Systems at Western Illinois UniversityEntry Level Firefighter, Entry Level Firefighter at Southwest Wisconsin Technical CollegeAssociate of Science - AS, Associate of Science - AS at Carl Sandburg College
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rwaight/Bash
Sep 2018 - Nov 2023
A collection of bash scripts
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches, 4 comments in 5 years 2 months
bash-scriptsbashbash-scriptshellmingw-w64
rwaight/rwaight.github.io
Oct 2018 - Jul 2026
rwaight's github.io page
Contributions:12 releases, 24 reviews, 131 PRs in 7 years 10 months
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