Wes Walker
Technical Specialist at Leggett & Platt
Kalispell, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes Walker is a Technical Specialist with 11 years of experience blending software development and cybersecurity to protect systems from evolving threat actors. With a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Information Security Engineering from SANS, he ships solutions primarily in C#, Java, and JavaScript while maintaining hands-on expertise in Windows and VMware environments. At Leggett & Platt he applies practical, operations-focused security engineering learned from earlier field and technical support roles to harden enterprise systems. He has a background supporting clients remotely and onsite, which gives him a pragmatic view of incident response and system reliability under real-world constraints. Based in Kalispell, Montana, Wes pairs academic depth with a developer’s mindset—building apps and defensive capabilities rather than only writing policies. That blend of field experience and formal security training makes him effective at translating threat models into actionable controls.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) in Information Security Engineering, Master of Science (MS) in Information Security Engineering at SANS Technology InstituteBachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.5, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.5 at Purdue University
English, German
Github Skills (6)
failover8
aws7
load-balancing7
sharepoint1
backend1
svelte1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
weswalker125/ww-vpn
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
OpenVPN on an EC2 instance
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
ec2vpnawsec2-instanceopenvpn
weswalker125/miscellaneous
Dec 2018 - Dec 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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