Humair Ahmed

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States22 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 2x VMware Press book author.
  • Expert in Technical Marketing and Competitive Analysis.
  • Speaker at major industry events including AWS re:Invent.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on networking and security solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical MarketingApplication Security

Other Skills

AI SecurityCDNLoad BalancingAPI SecurityDomain Name System (DNS)Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)Competitive IntelligenceThreat & Vulnerability ManagementBot ManagementAIClient Side SecurityArtificial Intelligence (AI)Web Application FirewallWeb3Large Language Models (LLM)

About

Author: Books: - VMware Press: VMware Cloud on AWS: NSX Networking and Security - VMware Press: VMware NSX Multi-site Solutions and Cross-vCenter NSX Design - Day 1 Notable Reference Architectures/Technical Papers: - Cloudflare Multi-vendor Application Security and Performance RA - Cloudflare CDN RA - Cloudflare IPFS Gateway Paper - Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway Paper - NSX-V: Multi-site Options and Cross-VC NSX Design Guide - Security for Hyper-Converged Solutions: Dell EMC VxRAIL Appliances - VMware vSAN Readymades with VMware NSX-V - VMware NSX-V: Control Plane Resiliency with CDO Mode - Automation Leveraging NSX REST API Guide - Disaster Recovery with NSX and SRM - Dell Networking with Dell-VMware EVO:RAIL RA - Dell Networking: Multitenancy Across Physical and Logical Environments with VRF-lite and VMware NSX - Dell Networking: Multitenancy with VRF-lite - Network Virtualization with Dell Infrastructure and VMware NSX RA - Dell Networking FC Flex IOM: Deployment of FCoE with Dell FC Flex IOM, Brocade FC switches, and Dell Compellent Storage Array - Dell Networking FC Flex IOM: Infrastructure & Network Convergence w/ FCoE - Deploying Dell Networking MXL and PowerEdge M IO Aggregator with the FC FlexIO Module in a Cisco MDS Environment - Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE - Dell Networking S5000: The Building Blocks of Unified Fabric and LAN/SAN Convergence - Dell Bare Metal Provisioning 3.0 - Automating the Network Quotes: "Don't just live life, but, enjoy it, shape it, and make it your own" - me "Friends, don't worry about losing your jobs; worry about losing your innovation" - me again Blogs: http://humairahmed.com/blog https://linkedin.com/in/humairahmed/detail/recent-activity/posts https://supertechcamp.com/blog http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/author/hahmed Open Source Code: http://humairahmed.com/#Downloads https://github.com/HumairAhmed Dell 'Bare Metal Provisioning 3.0 - Automating the Network' whitepaper scripts: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/networking/m/force10_networking_scripts/20305763.aspx Twitter: @Humair_Ahmed Speaker at many industry events including: - Cloudflare Immerse 2025 - Bay Area - Cloudflare Connect 2025 - RSA 2025 - AWS re:Invent 2018 - VMworld US 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 - VMworld Europe 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 - VMware vForum | Sydney 2018 - Cloud Field Day #5, 2018 - ZertoCON 2018 - Networking Field Day #15, 2017 - EMC World 2016 - Dell User/Enterprise Forums (DUF/DEF) 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012

Experience

22 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Cloudflare

Technical Marketing Director

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, California · Remote

  • <---Helping build a better Internet!---/>
  • Own technical marketing and competitive for:
  • App Security (API Gateway, WAF, Bot Management, DDoS, Page Shield (Client Side Security))
  • AI Security and Intelligence (Firewall for AI, AI Audit, Pay Per Crawl)
  • Threat Intelligence and Response (Security Center, Cloudforce One, Log Explorer)
  • App Performance (CDN, DNS, Load Balancing)
  • Web3 (IPFS and Ethereum Gateways)
  • Responsible for global competitive analysis and strategy to enable sales to win competitive deals
  • Responsible for global technical collateral and enablement
  • Collaborate with PMs to improve product offerings
  • Speaker for public Cloudflare webinars/events, enablement sessions, and tech talks
  • Present and explain/demo Cloudflare products to industry analysts
  • Wrote the first reference architecture for Cloudflare CDN
  • Wrote the first technical whitepapers on Cloudflare Web3 Products (IPFS Gateway and Ethereum Gateway)
  • More on Cloudflare:
  • Cloudflare is a cloud platform and global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. Performance, security, and reliability services, in addition to a development platform, run on every server in every Cloudflare data center across the globe.
  • Cloudflare's network spans 330 cities in over 125+ countries, reaching 95% of the world’s population within 50 ms while providing 388 Tbps of network capacity and DDoS protection.
  • Cloudflare protects millions of Internet properties serving 78 million HTTP requests per second on average and blocks an average 247 billion cyber threats per day.
  • With Cloudflare, you can also deploy AI models and serverless code that runs blazing fast on the network edge!
AI SecurityCDNTechnical MarketingApplication SecurityLoad BalancingAPI Security+9

Various basketball leagues

Youth Basketball Coach

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Coached several youth basketball teams in various leagues across the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Coached multiple youth basketball teams to championship wins
  • Coached multiple youth basketball teams to undefeated seasons and championship wins
  • Prioritized developing players and winning as a team - focus on fundamentals and team work
  • Taught strategic offensive and defensive plays

Nutanix

Principal Product Manager

Dec 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Jose, CA

  • Focused on:
  • Nutanix Cloud Services
  • top strategic Nutanix customer accounts
  • customer expansion of Nutanix product portfolio

Vmware

4 roles

Author - VMware Press: VMware Cloud on AWS: NSX Networking and Security

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Jul 2019 · 0 mo · Palo Alto, CA

  • With VMware Cloud on AWS extending or moving to the cloud is no longer a daunting task. In this book, VMware NSX and VMware Cloud on AWS experts Humair Ahmed, Gilles Chekroun, and Nico Vibert discuss use cases and solutions while also providing a detailed walkthrough of the NSX networking and security capabilities in VMware Cloud on AWS.
  • https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vmw-cloud-on-aws-networking-and-security.pdf

Author - VMware Press: VMware NSX Multi-site Solutions and Cross-vCenter NSX Design: Day 1 Guide

Aug 2018 – Aug 2018 · 0 mo · Palo Alto, CA

  • Author of VMware Press book: VMware NSX Multi-site Solutions and Cross-vCenter NSX Design: Day 1 Guide. Free PDF version available here:
  • https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/nsx/vmware-multi-site-solutions-cross-vcenter-nsx-design-guide.pdf

Senior Technical Product Manager - VMware Cloud on AWS: Networking and Security

Promoted

Nov 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

  • Focused on technical solutions and architecture, product management, product marketing, customer engagements, and sales/SE/solution architect training for Networking and Security in VMware Cloud on AWS.
  • Author: VMware Press Book: VMware Cloud on AWS: NSX Networking and Security
  • Speaker at multiple industry events including:
  • AWS:reInvent 2018
  • US VMworld 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
  • Europe VMworld 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
  • Cloud Field Day #5, 2019
  • ZertoCON 2018
  • Networking Field Day #15, 2017
  • EMC World 2016

Senior Technical Product Manager - NSX Networking and Security

Jul 2015 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Palo Alto, CA

  • Focused on technical solutions and architecture, product management, product marketing, customer engagements, and sales/SE/solution architect training for for VMware NSX.
  • Author: VMware Press Book: VMware NSX Multi-site Solutions and Cross-vCenter NSX Design: Day 1 Guide
  • Wrote industry first design guide on multi-site solutions with NSX
  • Technical Product Lead on:
  • VMware Cloud on AWS and Hybrid Cloud
  • Multi-site Data Centers
  • Multi-site Data Center Security
  • NSX with GSLB in Multi-site Designs
  • Disaster Avoidance and Recovery
  • Additional Focus and Expertise on:
  • Security (NSX DFW, Palo Alto Network VM Series, Checkpoint vSEC)
  • Multi-site Load Balancing with GSLB (F5 Networks)
  • Automation
  • Speaker at multiple industry events including:
  • AWS:reInvent 2018
  • US VMworld 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
  • Europe VMworld 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
  • Cloud Field Day #5, 2019
  • ZertoCON 2018
  • Networking Field Day #15, 2017
  • EMC World 2016

Super tech camp

Founder

Sep 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Dell (acquired force10 networks)

3 roles

Product Management Consultant | Networking and SDN

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos

  • Technical and Product Lead for:
  • SDN solutions (VMware NSX and Midokura Midonet), storage networking solutions, converged architectures and end-to-end solutions.
  • Speaker at many Dell events including:
  • Dell User/Enterprise Forums (DUF/DEF) 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]

Architect / Senior Technical Marketing Engineer | Networking

Promoted

Nov 2012 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Technical and Product Lead for:
  • SDN solutions (VMware NSX and Midokura Midonet), storage networking solutions, converged architectures and end-to-end solutions.
  • Published first Dell reference architecture for SDN with network overlays (VMware NSX)
  • Published industry first reference architecture showcasing network virtualization with VMware NSX over a completely converged lossless fabric (iSCSI over DCB).
  • Published industry first reference architecture showcasing network virtualization with VMware NSX used in conjunction with VRF for specific use cases.
  • Published first Dell reference architecture for hyper-converged solutions with Dell and VMware EVO:RAIL.
  • Published first Dell reference architecture for Dell’s first FCoE/FC converged rack (Dell S5000) and blade switches (Dell MXL/IOA with FC Flex IOM).
  • Speaker at many Dell events including:
  • Dell User/Enterprise Forums (DUF/DEF) 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]

Senior Network Engineer

Jan 2012 – Nov 2012 · 10 mos

Force10 networks (acquired by dell)

Automation/Network Engineer

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · San Jose, CA

United biosource corporation

Applications System Analyst

Jan 2010 – May 2010 · 4 mos · San Francisco, CA

Hurricane electric

Network Tech Engineer

Dec 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Fremont, CA

Humairahmed.com

Blogger and Consultant

Nov 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Blogger and Consultant for many things High Tech.
  • Specific expertise in:
  • Networking and Network Architecture
  • Network Security and Micro-segmentation
  • Software Defined Networking
  • Virtualization
  • Cloud Computing
  • Private and Public Cloud Architectures
  • Web3: DApps, Blockchain, Ethereum, IPFS

Healthfacts startup

Developer/Systems Engineer (Founder)

Jul 2008 – Dec 2008 · 5 mos · San Jose, CA

Eli lilly and company

3 roles

Operations Associate Engineer

Jan 2007 – Jul 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos · Indianapolis, IN

System Analyst

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 · 3 yrs · Indianapolis, IN

Intern - J2EE Developer

May 2003 – Aug 2003 · 3 mos · Indianapolis, IN

University of pittsburgh

C Programming Teaching Assistant

Sep 2002 – Jan 2003 · 4 mos · Pittsburgh, PA

Education

University of California, Berkeley

UC Berkeley Virtualization and Cloud Computing Certificate — Computer Science

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

San Francisco State University

Math/Science Post-bac courses

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010

University of California, Berkeley

Java Programming Certificate — Computer Science

Jan 2009 – Jan 2009

University of Pittsburgh

BS — Information Science/Systems

Jan 1999 – Jan 2003

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Jan 2006 – Present

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