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Andrew V. Walsh

Andy Walsh

Deputy Chancellor, College of Information and Cyberspace
National Defense University · Washington, DC

Technology leader in the U.S. Government. I mainly use my websites to test new technology and keep my skills current. Hobbies include running, swimming, hiking, biking, motorcycles, travel, photography, and anything to do with new or emerging technology.

About Me

I am a Technology Leader that works for the U.S. Government usually overseas, but currently assigned as Deputy Chancellor of the College of Information and Cyberspace at the National Defense University in Washington, DC.

Official NDU Bio

My assignments have taken me from Munich, Germany to Brussels, Belgium with stops in Kenya, China, Nicaragua, the UK, and even a bit of time in Haiti, Somalia and Afghanistan. My teams focus on proactively looking for new ways to use technology that allow us to better serve the American people, advance U.S. interests and build strong relationships with our friends and allies around the globe. We have been successful with zero trust, cloud, mobile, big data, and virtualization solutions recently, but are exploring new technology and ways it can add value to our efforts. The latest projects are mainly security related, as our organization moves towards a mindset of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA).

Projects

  • Exploring all technology related to Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) and the shift from perimeter based networks to a mindset of compromise and remediation
  • Working with Node-RED and IoT technologies to automate systems of systems
  • Self hosting AI inference with vLLM and local language models on NVIDIA hardware
  • Building automation and monitoring dashboards with Grafana and InfluxDB
  • Presence detection with mmWave sensors, MQTT, and time series databases
  • Running a privacy conscious, self hosted infrastructure stack on Proxmox

Blog

Migrated to Python
2026-04-08
This site now runs on a single Python file serving Markdown content. No PHP, no MariaDB, no Node.js, no static site generator build step. Just Python, Markdown, and a Jinja2 template. Fully self-contained, runs offline.

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