Sebastian Maniak

Co-Founder

Canada21 yrs 1 mo experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Over 25 years of expertise in security and cloud architecture.
  • Recognized as F5 DevCentral MVP and HashiCorp Ambassador.
  • Passionate advocate for AI and automation in enterprise solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud and AI Solutions Architect with a focus on enterprise security and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ArchitectureArtificial Intelligence (ai)Consulting

Other Skills

AI connectivity solutionstechnical positioningmessagingcontent creationdemoscompetitive intelsales enablementAI gatewaysLLM securitysemantic cachingagentic AI infrastructuremcpA2AkagentExpert Advisor

About

Seasoned technology evangelist and executive leader with over 25 years of pioneering expertise in security, automation, cloud architecture, AI, Generative AI, and Machine Learning. I ignite innovation and inspire transformation, passionately advocating for cutting-edge solutions while sharing visionary insights with global enterprises, tech trailblazers, and the next wave of security, DevOps, and cloud innovators. As a Cloud Architect specializing in Google Cloud and AWS, I evangelize scalable, secure architectures that redefine enterprise possibilities. Honored as F5 DevCentral MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and SNYK Ambassador, I am acclaimed for my evangelical community impact and influential thought leadership. Through my consulting and content creation endeavors, I collaborate with powerhouse innovators like F5, HashiCorp, Fortinet, SNYK, Google, Solo, and beyond, delivering executive advisory, keynote evangelism, transformative training, compelling blogs, videos, whitepapers, and webinars. My core proficiencies include Terraform, Vault, Service Mesh, Istio, Envoy, MCP, A2A Google Agents, and harnessing AI/ML to propel secure, automated futures that drive unparalleled business velocity and innovation.

Experience

21 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Solo.io

2 roles

Technical Product Marketing Manager

Promoted

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

  • Drive go-to-market for Solo.io's AI connectivity solutions.
  • Develop technical positioning, messaging, and content for AI gateways, LLM security, prompt guards, semantic caching, and agentic AI infrastructure. Create demos, deep-dive blogs, competitive intel, enable sales/SE teams, and collaborate with product/engineering to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
AI connectivity solutionstechnical positioningmessagingcontent creationdemoscompetitive intel+3

AI Principal Solutions Architect

Oct 2025Jan 2026 · 3 mos

  • As a Solutions Architect for Strategic Accounts, you will serve as the primary technical owner for a select group of high-value customers.
  • This senior, post-sales role focuses on ensuring deep product adoption, swift issue resolution, and strategic consulting to optimize the use of Solo.io’s cloud-native product suite. By incorporating AI and agent-driven insights, you will act as a trusted advisor, tailoring solutions to meet customers’ unique architectural and business needs.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)mcpA2AkagentCloud Architecture

Selector

2 roles

Senior Technical Marketing Manager

Jul 2025Oct 2025 · 3 mos

  • A Senior Technical Marketing Manager develops and executes marketing strategies for technical products or services, bridging technical and business teams. Create compelling content (whitepapers, case studies, demos), analyze market trends, drive product positioning, collaborate with engineering and sales, and measure campaign performance to boost adoption and revenue.

Senior Field Technology Engineer

May 2025Jul 2025 · 2 mos

  • Senior technology leader who bridges technical expertise and customer-facing roles. They work directly with clients, partners, or field teams to align technology solutions with business needs, drive adoption, and provide strategic guidance. Responsibilities include advising on product implementation, troubleshooting complex issues, evangelizing technology, and gathering customer feedback to influence product development.

Next orbit

Advisor

Jan 2024Jan 2026 · 2 yrs · Toronto, ON

Expert AdvisorBusiness AdvisingConsulting

Hashicorp

2 roles

Sr. Solutions Architect

Jan 2023Apr 2023 · 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Zero Trust Specialist | Senior Solutions Engineer

Feb 2022Jan 2023 · 11 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Focus on Zero Trust security

Sheridan college

Professor Teaching Cyber Security | infrastructure as Code

Aug 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Professor teaching
  • Applied Network Security
  • Infrastructure as Code

Sun life

Cloud Network Engineer

Sep 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • As a Cloud Network Engineer my focus is the design, architecture and deployment of the Global Cloud Network and security infrastructure required for all enterprise applications to run in the Cloud. Upon the completion of the AWS Architecture deployment my responsibility has shifted to the AWS deployment automation and the migration of Sun Life enterprise applications to the Cloud.

Maniak ventures inc

Consultant

Oct 2014Present · 11 yrs 7 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

  • VC Firm.

S144 inc

Partner | CO-Founder

Oct 2014Feb 2022 · 7 yrs 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

A10 networks

Sr. Systems Engineer

Aug 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Pre-Sales Engineering focusing on Application Delivery Controllers, DDoS prevention and Network Security.
  • A10 Networks, founded in 2004, pioneered a new generation of application networking technologies. Our solutions enable enterprises, service providers, Web giants and government organizations to accelerate, secure and optimize the performance of their data center applications and networks. Our Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS®) platform is designed to deliver substantially greater performance and security relative to prior generation application networking products. Our software-based ACOS architecture provides the flexibility that enables us to expand our business with additional products to solve a growing array of networking and security challenges across cloud computing and mobility. A10 Networks has a portfolio of application-layer networking products that assure user-to-application connectivity is available, accelerated and secure.

Scalar decisions

Solution Architect

Apr 2012Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Providing strategic solutions that leverage leading edge technologies meeting our customers objectives. Solutions incorporate best of bread technologies meeting both current and future requirements with an agnostic approach. Vertical markets include: Education, Insurance, Real Estate, Banking, Manufacturing, Retail, Transportation, Hospitals, and Government.
  • Pre-Sales

Research in motion

3 roles

Systems Architect, Unified Communication

Jan 2012May 2012 · 4 mos

  • RIM Corporate Unified Communications Program:
  • Lead technical evaluation & introduction of new UC products & solutions and decommissioning of legacy UC platforms and services;
  • Architect RIM Corporate UC integration major releases;
  • Owned and managed RIM Corporate UC Interoperability Testing Lab;
  • Contribute to development of RIM BlackBerry-centric enterprise UC offer & enterprise sales support, with focus on proof-of-concept testing & prototyping of BlackBerry mobile enterprise UC apps; and
  • Build RIM UC Center of Excellence by developing enterprise UC “know-how” blue prints

BlackBerry Systems Architect

Jan 2010Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

  • Researching emerging technologies and recommend opportunities for improving system integrity and cost effectiveness.
  • Act as a bridge between software and network groups, ensuring communication lines remain open and the network is primed to support new applications. Provide end-to-end system testing facility to test technologies.
  • Provide feedback to software development to ensure applications are developed to take full advantage of the network's capabilities
  • Understand the capabilities and standards of the network infrastructure, and facilitate the design and testing required to augment those capabilities.
  • Provide knowledge transfers to other data network members on applications the network will support, and ensure clean handoffs to Eng / Ops teams for deployment.
  • Work closely with network architects, application developers, and systems engineers to diagnose interaction issues between the network and application
  • Perform detailed analysis of application flows and their network impact, and leverage tools (e.g., OPNET,Niksun) to identify and diagnose application performance issues

Network Engineer Specialist

Jan 2007Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Responsible for the design, implementation and support of the network infrastructure, connectivity and security solutions used by the BlackBerry service cloud and its developments teams.
  • Responsible for ensuring that consistent network solutions are delivered while managing customer satisfaction and continually driving process and technical improvement across the organization.
  • Interface with internal and external organizations to the department, as well as external partners, to deliver innovation solutions and resolve complex technical problems.

D link

Support Specialist

Oct 2003Dec 2006 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Education

Sheridan College

Computer Science — Diploma

Jan 2003Jan 2006

Sheridan College

Telecommunications — Advanced Diploma

Jan 2003Jan 2006

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