Dave Potter

About Dave Potter

I build cloud solutions-delivering apps and services. As a solutions architect, I show the intrinsic value that modern day services provide by creating demos, presentations, and other collateral. As an innovator and technology evangelist, my solutions highlight innovative ways to solve complex problems when managing apps and services in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. I work directly with Sales, Engineering, and customers, to create highly relevant solutions that integrate multiple technologies that are web-based, using a mix of application delivery, and web security products and services.As a product line and technology lead, I present the holistic value that my solutions offer, from maintaining visibility to automating management, including making it easier for businesses to perform operations with automated after hours maintenance and self-service solutions.Specialties: Multi-cloud, massively scalable multi-tenant and multi-site data centers, application delivery. Web app security & visibility (netflow, appflow), high availability (HA, clustering, DNS), global server load balancing, cloud networking (Azure, AWS, GCP), software defined networking (SDN, ACI), network overlay protocols (VxLAN, GRE, SSL-VPN), core routing and switching protocols, VMware, Cisco, Citrix (ADC, ADM, Gateway)

Experience

1. Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

   F5

   Apr 2022 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Senior Technical Marketing Engineer lead within the Security Product Group for sales enablement in key security products and solutions related to infrastructure security, multi-cloud security, visibility, intelligence and orchestration. Creating valuable and compelling multi-product solutions. Working directly with F5 Distributed Cloud (Volterra), Shape Security, NGINX, BIG-IP, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes managed services (AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift) to connect and automate the secure delivery and runtime of modern web and API-supported apps that span multiple cloud networks and providers. Security solutions include OWASP standards, WAF, WAAP, bot defense, DDoS protection. DevOps friendly multi-cloud solutions using Terraform, GitLab, and GitHub.

Education

• University of Michigan

  Certificate via Coursera, Organizational Leadership

• Cabrillo College

  Computer Science

  2002 — 2004

• Cuesta College

  Computer Science

• De Anza College

  Computer Science

  1999 — 1999

Skills

• Routing
• Cisco Technologies
• Load Balancing
• Vpn
• Switches
• Ssl
• Routing Protocols
• Network Architecture
• Security
• Networking
• Ospf
• Bgp
• Tcp/Ip
• Troubleshooting
• Data Center
• Xml
• Network Security
• Soap
• Network Virtualization
• Virtualization