Michael Braun
System Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
El Cajon, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Braun is a veteran system engineer with over 20 years in IT, specializing in designing and managing secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise networks across multi-vendor and global environments. He combines deep hands-on experience from roles at Cisco and Palo Alto Networks with a decade-plus of people leadership, having managed local and global engineering teams and incident response operations. His background spans presales engineering, large datacenter redesigns, global MPLS and VoIP rollouts, and security architecture informed by NIST and compliance needs. Trained in Python for DevOps automation, he brings practical programmability to network and security operations rather than treating automation as an afterthought. A U.S. military veteran, he’s comfortable leading high-stakes projects and has a track record of influencing vendor and platform standards at enterprise scale. Based in El Cajon, CA, he pairs pragmatic engineering judgement with the ability to translate business requirements into resilient, auditable network architectures.
8 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA, Cisco Networking, CCNA, Cisco Networking at Cisco Networking AcademyAssociate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Cuyamaca College
Github Skills (4)
java-libraries7
algorithms5
ai4
automl3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mibraun/AILibs
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
A Java library for infrastructural classes and basic algorithms in the area reasoning, search, and machine learning
Contributions:14 pushes in 4 months
java-librarymachine-learningjavabasic-algorithmsinfrastructural
mibraun/PG_OTFML-Range-Query-Prediction-test-data-creator
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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