Sam Oehlert
Information Security Architect
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSam Oehlert is an Information Security Architect with a decade of hands-on experience securing high-performance research networks and supercomputing environments from Champaign, Illinois. At ESnet he shapes multi-year technical vision, instituted a Design Assistance and Review process, and led production-quality automation and orchestration for network devices. Former NCSA roles combined incident response, IDS tuning, host and network monitoring, and DevOps-style automation with Puppet, Python and Bash to harden large-scale research infrastructure. He favors pragmatic, enablement-first security—designing mitigations that let projects proceed securely rather than blocking innovation. Sam also launched an internal mentorship program and champions software best practices inside security teams, blending architecture work with developer empathy. His background in both systems administration and threat modeling gives him unusual fluency across networks, hosts, and automation tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Liberal Arts & Sciences; History, Informatics, Bachelors, Liberal Arts & Sciences; History, Informatics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
security9
galaxy9
release-automation9
ansible-galaxy8
tower7
automation7
network-automation7
testssl6
hosting5
ansible5
gitlab4
nessus4
nmap4
scanning4
openvas3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
esnet-security/SCRAM
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Security Catch and Release Automation Manager
Contributions:1 release, 100 reviews, 389 commits in 1 year 9 months
security-toolsbugbountysecurityrelease-automationautomation
samoehlert/bhr-master
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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