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Sergey Starzhinskiy

Sergey Starzhinskiy

Cyber Security SME

Warrington, Pennsylvania, US, PA 18976

Background


About

About

IT professional with 15+ years of proven track record in Security and Telco fields in many customer-facing capacities, including global solution architect, solution engineer, consultant and sales engineer. I build lasting relationships with the business and technical decision makers within our most strategic customer accounts. Broad range of technical skills and experience in high-level executive and technical presentations as well as architecture workshops, demo and proof-of-concept/proof-of-value activities. Self-motivated team player with an experience of leading the support and delivery team in a dynamic startup company. Technical pre-sales SME supporting Solution Engineers and Solution Architects driving the deals to closure and ensuring the account teams meet and exceed their assigned quota. Champion cross-team collaboration between Sales, Product Management, and Marketing to prioritize and deliver high-value products and services that effectively solve customers' problems. Experience working in a high-pressure environment effectively handling multiple projects and achieving targets in a timely manner. As a recent MBA graduate, I have learned business and corporate-level strategies, theories of leadership, product marketing, startup entrepreneurship and other subjects that allow me to excel at collaboration externally with the customers and internally with marketing, product, finance and sales leadership to drive the company revenue and deliver outstanding product to the customers.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Sales Engineer, Cradlepoint Inc

    May, 2023 - Present

    Provide world-class technical pre-sales for Ericom Security products (RBI, SWG, CASB, DLP, ZTNA), part of Cradlepoint/Ericsson. Qualify, POC/POV and close opportunities while acting as a technical SME for the customer and product teams. Steer product management teams based on the innovative ideas, customer and field feedback. Lead SE onboarding and enablement activites that provide knowledge and tools necessary for a successful customer relationships. Security SME contributing to the company's solution portfolio, analyst briefing and development of public-facing marketing materials as well as speaking at the industry events and conferences.

    • SSE

    • SASE

    • ZTNA

    • RBI

    • DLP

    • Zero Trust Access

  • Global Solutions Architect, F5 Inc

    Sep, 2019 - May, 20233 years 8 months

    Ensure F5 builds the right solutions for our customers so Sales can exceed revenue goals (115% WW in FY22) by collecting and prioritizing product feedback for Product Management and Development. Collaborate with global sales leadership to help define our product positioning strategy and develop enablement activities for technical pre-sales to ensure the successful demonstration and proof of concept outcome. Establish business relationships with product managers and leaders, to review and provide feedback on product roadmaps, features and an overall F5 security portfolio strategy. Regularly lead customer-facing activities and projects (Bot Defense integration efforts, F5 Distributed Cloud security use-cases and inbound sales integration desk deals review) to bring new solutions to market faster. Create and evangelize customer demos for F5 SEs and labs for events like our Sales Kickoff, SE TechXchange and partner conferences. Produce GSA Solution Packages that provide tools to help F5 SEs better compete and be more effective in field sales motions. Contribute to various initiatives that concern F5 Security portfolio and products - Zero infrastructure developer platform, JS-based Magecart attack protection deployed on SSL visibility products, AI/ML exploration, NGINX WAF enhancements and integration with Bot protection service. Evangelize F5 solutions and promote products and tools via security solutions architect and engineer teams. Continuously research the current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.

    • Solution Architecture

    • Web App Security

    • Product Management

  • Customer Solutions Engineer, F5 Inc

    Jan, 2018 - Sep, 20191 year 8 months

    Productize the best F5 solutions and make them consistent across all regions. Identify opportunities for field solutions to be unified across the business theaters. Create complete solution packages that typically include internal resources like demo blueprints, reference architectures and training presentations, as well as customer-facing collateral such as slide decks, leave-behind papers, blog posts in F5 DevCentral community and video demo recordings. Promote solution packages internally via conferences, and externally in user forums, webinars and trade shows.

    • Solution Packages

    • F5 DevCentral

  • Solution Architect (Consulting) - Traffix, F5 Inc

    Aug, 2013 - Jan, 20184 years 5 months

    Expert on F5 Diameter solution that significantly simplifies Evolved Packet Core control plane protocols routing and allows agile Diameter infrastructure scaling. Helped sell and deploy DRA/DEA, HTTP web services, RADIUS solutions to Tier 1 Telecom operators in the US, Canada and Mexico. Solution design and architecture for geo-distributed highly available application clusters for hardware and private cloud/NFV environments. Evolved packet core 3G/4G/LTE signaling protocols expertise: Diameter, RADIUS, SOAP/XML, GTP-C. Configuration of customer demo environments. RFP/RFQ handling/review. Creation of various documents including Statements of Work, low level design documents.

    • Diameter protocol

    • 4G/LTE

    • EPC

    • Control Plane

    • Mobility

    • Policy/Charging

  • Enterprise Network Engineer Lead, Traffix Inc

    Mar, 2011 - Aug, 20132 years 5 months

    Traffix SDC (Diameter Routing Agent) SME: configuration, debugging, assistance in solution design. Groovy scripting, Java source code review. Signaling protocols expertise: Diameter, RADIUS, SOAP/XML, JMS. Work with Professional Services and Services Delivery organizations to define and implement SDC related learning paths and best practices.

    • Diameter Routing Agent

    • Java

    • Groovy scripting

    • Delivery and Support

  • Tier 4 Delivery Engineer, Comverse Inc

    Mar, 2007 - Mar, 20114 years

    Expertise in configuration and deployment of Comverse Real-Time Billing (RTB)/Converged Billing (CBS) systems at the customer sites. Lead new system and software delivery. Integration with other vendors as well as different Comverse products (messaging, voice mail, MIG). Customer requirements analysis and product implementation (on site and remotely). Ongoing support of the customer billing operations. Documentation of Root Cause Analysis and timely closure of trouble tickets.

    • Real Time Billing Systems

    • Service Provider

    • Packet Core

    • Delivery and Support

Skills

Skills

  • Solution Architecture

    Sales Presentations

    Technical Presales

    Solution Architecture

    Web Application Security

    WAF

    DDoS

    telecommunications

    kubernetes

    Linux

    AI/ML

    Bot

    Docker

    CSP

    microservices

    cloud-native

    API Security

    GraphQL

    DevOps

    DevSecOps

    GitLab

    CI/CD

    SAST / SCA

    Pentesting

    DAST

  • Security SME

    ZTNA

    SASE / SSE

    SWG

    CASB

    DLP

    Zero Trust

    Zero Trust Architecture

    RBI

    Remote Browser Isolation

    FWaaS / NGFW

  • Scripting

    Python

    Serverless

    JavaScript

    Bash

  • Networking

    SSL/TLS

    OSI model

    Diameter

    4G / LTE

    EPC

Education

Education

  • Telecommunications Engineering, Masters (Specialist), Moscow Technical University of Telecommunications and Informatics

    Sep, 1999 - Mar, 2004

  • Business Administration, Masters, Quantic School of Business and Technology

    Apr, 2022 - Jul, 2023

Interests

Interests

  • Traveling

  • Biking

  • AI/ML

  • Blockchain

  • Quantum Computing

References

References

  • Aaron Hooley, RVP, Global Solution Architects - Security and SaaS, F5 Inc.

    I've had the honor to work with Sergey for nearly a decade. Sergey is one of the best technical minds in the industry. He's an expert in every realm of technology he's worked in: Service Provider solutions, Network and Application Security, Kubernetes applications, Fraud mitigation, and the list goes on. Sergey excels with his willingness to pick up any new technology or project, his ability to master the solution area, teach others what he's learned and work with customers and engineering teams to improve the solution. Sergey is a huge contributor to any organization who is lucky enough to have him.

  • Alfredo Vistola, Sr. Global Solution Architect, F5, Inc.

    It has been a privilege to work with Sergey for 3 years in the F5 global solution architect team. He was a great contributor to the team and was always open to help other teams too! He is an expert in a lot of areas, just to mention a few e.g. modern app security, DevSecOps and automation. Sergey had always a key role in F5 to improve solutions and influence roadmap as well as SE enablement on new topics and he found always ways to solve challenges and was very open for learning new technologies. Sergey is a huge contributor and he will be an asset to any organization wherever he lands.