Simon Reed
Chief Security Officer @Sophos
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Security Officer @Sophos
London, GB
ABOUT SIMON REED
Director of Engineering / SVP/ VP Engineering / Chief Technology Officer Specialties: Advanced technology innovation / architecture and technical business leadership. I am a passionate cybersecurity technology leader who has been working at the heart of the IT security industry for 16 years. My total experience of in the software product industry is 27 years with a consistent focus on product development on Unix, Windows, Apple Mac, Android, Linux, and now cloud using Amazon AWS. I have spent the last 16 years in senior technical leadership roles (CTO & VP level), in both a large mature company and a rapidly growing entrepreneurial environment. At all times working on industry leading cybersecurity products with a strong emphasis on threat detection and protection technologies. I have successfully managed multiple concurrent projects from inception to deployment, leading large teams (circ. 250) of software engineers, QA engineers, DevOps and Product Managers. I have worked with commercial teams and others to create product roadmaps ensuring a strong commercial focus all with a prominent ‘innovation’ underpinning. I have matured multiple engineering teams to improve executions and delivery, for example introducing structured methods of work, efficiency improvements via the usage of automated testing. I effectively and efficiently incubate, develop and deliver quality products.
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