NOLAN VAN SCHMUS

(805)-315-6204

nolan.vanschmus@pm.me

San Jose, CA

SKILLS

Endpoint Management

Network Infrastructure

Workplace Technology

Design and Fabrication

  • Jamf
  • Kandji
  • ABM
  • Mac, Windows, Linux, Mobile
  • Cisco IOS and Meraki
  • Data Center Operations
  • Cloudflare
    Zero Trust
  • Logitech Sync
  • Google Workspace
  • Conferencing Infrastructure
  • Proton Suite
  • Fusion 360
  • Solidworks
  • Blender
  • FDM Printing

EXPERIENCE

IT and Data Center Engineer

Windsurf 

(Acquired July 2025 by Cognition, AI)

Sep 2024 - Present

(1yr 10mo)

  • IT Engineer (Jul 2025 - Present, Acquisition of Windsurf by Cognition)
  • A/V support across 20+ company conference rooms, setting up equipment from the ground up including TVs, Logitech Rallybars and schedulers
  • Mounted and tested APs across multiple office spaces
  • Planned and executed a comprehensive MDM migration, merging separate ABM instances to a centralized device administration
  • Kandji administration; created custom rules for laptops, managed company's laptop asset tracking using Kandji as the backend
  • Data Center Engineer (Sep 2024 - Jul 2025, Codeium, Rebranded to Windsurf)
  • Assembled custom designed GPU-centric servers for company's AI inferencing infrastructure from the ground up
  • Deployed 100+ servers into datacenter, racking, stacking and cabling for a dense infrastructure
  • Triaged server issues and GPU issues, ran diagnostics to identify bad components and executed on findings to re-deploy servers

EDUCATION

San Jose State University

  • Bachelors of Science - Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications

  • Minor - Business
  • 2025 - Present (2027 Graduation)

De Anza Community College

  • A.A. - Liberal Arts: Business and Computer Information Systems Emphasis
  • 2022 - 2025

External Links

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