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Patrick Magpantay

Network Architect | Infrastructure, Automation, Reliability

20 years building and running infrastructure. Today I design the network that keeps a hospital running, where uptime is patient care.

“Aut inveniam viam aut faciam” — I will find a way, or make one.
Building infrastructure
20 years
Hospital users
~1,000
Hospital devices
1,200+
Cisco Live 2026 networking contest
Top 10

Experience

Fulton County Health Center

Wauseon, Ohio · Nov 2023 – present IS Network Architect (Oct 2025 – present) Systems Network Engineer (Nov 2023 – Oct 2025)

Community hospital system: main campus, long-term care and outpatient clinics. About 1,000 users and 1,200+ devices. IS team of about a dozen.

  • Led a reliability design review of the Cisco Nexus data center core.
  • Operate the hospital's enterprise firewalls and remote connectivity.
  • Clinical wireless: improved operating-room Wi-Fi and Vocera badge coverage (every reading -58 dBm or better). Automated nightly access point maintenance with the Meraki API.
  • Clinical apps: worked with the vendor to cut a cardiology imaging app's startup to about 6-7 seconds.
  • Clinical systems: led reconnecting the hospital's temperature-monitoring sensors, keeping the PC replacement project on schedule.
  • Identity: modernized Active Directory authentication ahead of a Microsoft security change, with no service impact.
  • Linux: upgraded 4 clinical web servers to current Ubuntu LTS and automated certificate monitoring.
  • Fleet: software rollout across ~700 Windows PCs and virtual desktops with Group Policy and endpoint management.
  • Microsoft 365: Exchange hybrid and Entra ID. Redesigned encrypted-email notices; they were shared with hospital leadership, and related tickets dropped to zero in the next 5 weeks.
  • AI: helped lead the hospital's AI program — in-house AI platform for staff, AI governance and vendor reviews. Led the rollout of an AI clinical reference tool for providers.
  • Built a private, read-only AI operations assistant (Claude Code): searchable knowledge base of configs, cases and lessons learned, with live read-only Meraki and Microsoft 365 data.
  • Leadership: led the IS team while the CIO and a senior peer were both out. Present regularly to hospital leadership. Trained desktop technicians on endpoint management and wrote their knowledge-base articles.

Recognition: Top 10, networking leaderboard contest, Cisco Live 2026.

Dakotech

Ann Arbor, MI · Sep 2022 – Jul 2023Cloud Engineer

  • Supported 125 client companies across 10 states: Microsoft 365, Azure AD, Windows and Linux servers, Hyper-V, Citrix, Meraki/SonicWall/pfSense firewalls, Duo MFA, Veeam.

Spa Wherever You Are

Philippines · Aug 2019 – Mar 2021System Administrator

  • Ran web infrastructure on Docker and Kubernetes; automated with Ansible and Terraform; monitored with Prometheus and Grafana.

Congress of the Philippines

Jun 2013 – Jun 2019Cyber Security Analyst

  • Security assessments and penetration testing; security policy and staff training for a government environment.

Digitalbro

PhilippinesSystem Administrator (2011 – 2013)Web Developer (2006 – 2011)

  • Windows and Linux servers, VMware/Hyper-V migrations, backups and monitoring; earlier, web applications in Python, PHP and MySQL.

Home Lab: PM1

A small-scale copy of enterprise design, run as code and operated by AI agents.

  • Proxmox virtualization on a Dell R630; Cisco C1000 routed core; SonicWall at the edge; pfSense enforcing east-west segmentation (IoT, work, agents).
  • Cisco 9800-CL wireless controller; Samba Active Directory and Kea DHCP on Debian.
  • Ansible config backups of every network device into git, on a schedule, with safety gates.
  • A fleet of Claude Code AI agents, each on its own VM, with least-privilege access and work tracked as tickets in Gitea.
  • Home Assistant smart home on an isolated IoT network.
  • This website: built by my AI agent, kept in Gitea, published to GitHub Pages.

Skills

Networking
Cisco Nexus/Catalyst, Meraki, routing and switching, firewalls, VPN, wireless
Systems
VMware vSphere/Horizon, Proxmox, Windows Server, Active Directory, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Linux
Automation & AI
Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, Git, REST APIs (Meraki, Microsoft Graph), Claude Code
Storage & backup
HPE Nimble, Veeam, ExaGrid