John Castillo

Enterprise Software | AI and API Governance/Security/Management | Helping Enterprises accelerate AI and digital transformation

Role
Strategic Account Director at Kong
Location
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About John Castillo

I’m an enterprise SaaS sales leader with 25 years of consistent success helping large organizations adopt modern software, observability, platform engineering and infrastructure technologies.At Dynatrace, I earned top attainment year after year by partnering with customers to modernize their cloud environments, improve reliability, and accelerate innovation. The relationships I built with customers and colleagues were a true blessing to me and my family.I’ve now joined Kong, where I help organizations modernize and scale their API platforms, strengthen API security, improve service connectivity and resilience, and accelerate adoption of platform engineering and AI-ready architectures.My passion is helping enterprises simplify complexity, standardize platforms, and adopt technologies that enable speed, security, and autonomy at scale.Always open to connecting with leaders in cloud, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, and API architecture.My experience and background includes:API Governance/Security and ManagementPlatform EngineeringCloud ArchitectureKubernetesAI Application EnablementEnterprise SaaS SalesDigital TransformationHybrid Cloud TechnologiesStorage/Compute and Data Center InfrastructureDisaster Recovery/Business ContinuityCloud and Network Security

Experience

  1. Strategic Account Director

    Kong

    Nov 2025 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US

Education

  • North Carolina State University

    BS, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Communications

Skills

  • Saas
  • Messaging
  • Channel Partners
  • Data Center
  • Fibre Channel
  • Sales Enablement
  • Virtualization
  • Wan Optimisation
  • Selling
  • Solution Selling
  • Cloud Computing
  • Network Security
  • Sales Operations
  • Professional Services
  • Storage
  • Unified Communications
  • Outsourcing
  • Security
  • Enterprise Software
  • Managed Services
  • Integration
  • Project Management
  • Cisco Technologies
  • Storage Area Networks
  • Sales
  • Disaster Recovery

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