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Passionate engineering leader, with over 19 years of experience in application and network security industry. I love building teams and products that solve real problems. Specialties: - Network and Application security (network and next generation firewalls, WAF, anti-bot prevention, IPS, DDoS mitigation) - Computer networking (Layer 2 - Layer 7) - Technical leadership, fostering a culture of accountability and collaboration - Strong focus on quality (functional, system and performance testing; test automation and continuous integration) - Stakeholder management (building relationships with product management, field/account teams) - Project management (agile and waterfall) Experience with network protocols: NAT, UDP, TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, SPDY, SMTP, HTTP, SSL Experience with programming languages: Python, Bash Experience with databases: MySQL, MariaDB Experience with test tools and traffic generators: curl, ab, IXIA, MuDynamics (Avalanche), Jmeter Experience with web application scanners: Qualys, AppScan, Whitehat, WebInspect, Trustwave (Cenzic) Experience testing Client-Server applications and web-based security products Current interests: microservices and containerization (kubernetes, docker), migrating monolithic appliances to the cloud, DevOps and CI/CD