// donschilling.com
Don Schilling
Engineer · Developer · Human
(not necessarily in that order)
Network engineer, security practitioner, and chronic side-project enthusiast based in Minnesota. (Not actually a hermit — I just prefer LinkedIn over the hellsite du jour.)
I’m a Network Manager at Midwest Radiology in the Twin Cities, which is a fancy way of saying I keep the YouTubes working 99.999% of the time for those bored at work.
When I’m not IT'ing, you’ll find me running around the lakes, proving myself to Odin in Valheim, rocking out on bass guitar with my wife in the basement, drinking tasting wine, doing one of many home projects, or exploring all that Minnesota has to offer.
This site is my corner of the internet — part portfolio, part journal, part proof that I still know how to build websites. Correction: proof that I know how to make Claude AI build websites.
Born and raised in Dayton, TX. Ended up in Minnesota by way of Louisiana, Turkey, Germany, Massachusetts and Texas again.
Grew up in Dayton until 1996. Graduated Dayton High School, class of ’95.
One semester as a music education major. Spoiler: didn’t stick with it.
Lackland AFB (TX) → Keesler AFB (MS) → Incirlik AB (Turkey) → Ramstein AB (Germany). Nearly five years of service.
Marlborough, Webster and Dudley. Senior Security Engineer at Pegasus Communications, then Network Administrator at Digitas in Boston.
Back to Texas for 16 years. Spent most of that time at Rackspace doing things involving clouds, servers, and the occasional fire drill.
Made the move north. Traded Texas heat for actual seasons. Managed a SOC team at Arctic Wolf.
Network Manager. Still adjusting to the concept of a frozen lake being normal.
Photographic evidence that time is, in fact, passing. The hair has changed. The smirk has not.
Side projects, passion projects, and “I should really finish this” projects.
A web-based game loosely inspired by We Are Legion. We Are Bob. Current site is a placeholder while the actual game lurks in development.
Started as a place for my mom’s ghost stories. Grew into something I actually want to use for paranormal investigations someday. One day.
Tracking app for our monthly wine club. We taste wine, we get together, we call it a “club.” It’s very official.
Guild site for WoW and FFXIV. Written from scratch in PHP/HTML/CSS/JS. Doesn’t get heavy use anymore but it’s still standing.
A tabletop RPG I’ve been building for quite some time. On hold because it demands more hours than I currently have.
My catch-all domain for random one-off pages and projects I need to share without dragging my personal domain into it.
Occasional posts — infrequent by design. Topics include health & nutrition, tech, games, and whatever else earns a write-up.
Worked with Jeff Holst and Jennifer Brown in November 2019 to put the finishing touches on their web-based evaluation tool. Mostly WordPress and Gravity Forms, with some custom PHP.
colinshope.org ↗From 2013 to 2022, hosted their site in my AWS environment and spent most of my annual VTO through Rackspace helping them with new features.
sanantoniopetsalive.org ↗