Andre Kerstens
Principal Solution Engineer at Akamai Technologies
- Role
- Principal Solution Engineer at Akamai Technologies
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Andre Kerstens
Results oriented systems engineer, solutions architect and sales professional with 22 years of comprehensive experience and knowledge in architecting high performance scale out computing solutions and application infrastructure, networking, security, virtualization, devops, technical sales support, and enterprise systems integration. Highly skilled in design, development and deployment of technology solutions including business analysis, installation and configuration, technical integration, custom development, testing and training. Extremely quick learner who performs well under pressure. Outstanding team-building, interpersonal and communication skills. Highly organized and consistently meets deadlines. Intelligent, diligent and enthusiastic.Specialties: Architecting Scale Out solutions, Application Infrastructure, resilient L2-L7 networking, High Performance Clusters, Data Center Design, AWS, OCI, Azure, Linux (SLES, RHEL, OpenSuSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu), SmartOS, MS Windows, Perl, Python, Lua, Bash Scripting, Intel/AMD IA32/64, Avi Vantage, VMware vSphere, KVM, OpenStack, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, NSX-T, NSX Load Balancer, LVM, Lustre, ZFS, Scyld, ROCKS, Platform Manager, Torque, Maui, MOAB, LSF, SGE
Experience
Principal Solution Engineer
Jun 2024 — Present · Knoxville, TN, US
Akamai’s acquisition of Noname Security allows us to accelerate the already amazing 200% growth Akamai has had in customer demand for Akamai API Security. Both Akamai and Noname are recognized Leaders in this space, and this acquisition gives Akamai the additional capabilities needed to become the ultimate pacesetter in API security.
Education
HAN University of Applied Sciences
BS, Electrical/Computer Engineering
1989 — 1993
Delft University of Technology
MS, Electrical Engineering
1993 — 1996
ETH Zürich
Robotics and Image Processing
1995 — 1996
Skills
- Ubuntu
- System Architecture
- Fedora
- Technical Product Sales
- Openstack
- Lvm
- Storage
- Cluster
- Shell Scripting
- Cloud Computing
- Servers
- High Performance Computing
- Hpc
- Linux
- Storage Solutions
- Parallel Computing
- Cluster Management
- Technical Sales Presentations
- Php
- Rhel
- Perl
- Integration
- Debian
- Python
- Scale Out Compute
- Data Center
- Unix
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