Matthew M.

I’m a senior network and security engineer with 9+ years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise solutions across Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco, Juniper, and AWS. My background is in VAR work, meaning I’ve been thrown into complex, multi-vendor environments my entire career — I’m used to moving fast, figuring things out, and delivering clean results without a lot of hand-holding. My specialty is network security — firewalls, VPNs, SD-WAN, and cloud network architecture. I hold a Fortinet NSE7 certification and have production experience with AWS Gateway Load Balancer deployments using both FortiGate and Palo Alto NGFWs, which is a combination very few engineers have actually built in the real world. On Upwork I’m focused on taking on focused engagements — firewall configs, VPN troubleshooting, AWS network architecture, and network assessments. If you need someone who can look at your environment, tell you what’s wrong, and fix it, that’s what I do.