Igor Plotnikov Email & Phone Number

Los Gatos, CA, US

Stealth mode startup in the data security space

Santa Clara, California, US

Building an AI mortgage broker/lender SaaS in order to disrupt the old traditional mortgage lending industryDomain knowledge: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, AWS, SAAS, Docker, ECS, microservice architecture, ML, NLP

• Oversaw IT infrastructure development for high-frequency trading. The company was acquired by Final Israel, Ltd.
• Assembled and managed a highly efficient cross-functional team
• Built distributed hardware-software trading platform achieving sub-microsecond latency with FPGA assist, low microseconds in software
• Created compliance and research infrastructure with big data, highly parallel market simulation environment
• Developed predictive models based on machine learning, and big data
• Personally designed and ran market-making strategiesDomain expertise: US Equities, trading infrastructure, protocols, algorithms, predictors, big data storage and analytics, trading strategies, FPGA integration, market.

Conceived and successfully created a prototype of a novel room conferencing device - full size shared whiteboard with multi-touch input. Worked on fundraising and prospective customer feedback.Domain knowledge: C#, F#, Ocaml, C++, video processing, OpenGL, teleconferencing

San Jose, CA, US

• Effectively guided the company from no presence to the leading position in the SSL VPN market.
• Oversaw success of MI Secure acquisition into Cisco Security BU
• Integrated the SSL VPN technology into the ASA firewall/IPSEC product
• Turned around and led 90-person remote access team at Cisco, dramatically improving productivity and code quality
• Led the creation of Cisco next generation SSL VPN client with DTLS support.
• Provided the vision, customer focus, technical leadership, process enforcement, and people management through three major product releases

• Developed security solutions for corporate intranets, leading to development of SSL VPN technology for Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Hired top notch team.
• Defined set of requirements for cutting-edge SSL VPN on an embedded platform
• Delivered on time and under budget, resulting in the $13M acquisition by Cisco Systems

Seattle, Washington, US

• Took the FirePass SSL VPN appliance product to the second market share position.
• Orchestrated successful integration of the product, processes, and teams into F5 Networks
• Matured the product through listening to customers, and rapid development at 4 releases a year
• Grew the team to 45 engineers in US and Russia
• Award-winning product achieved acclaim as the easiest SSL VPN to install and use
• Product has generated hundreds of millions in revenueDomain knowlege: SSL, remote access, network security, Linux, LAMP, PHP, MySQL, C, C++, Java, HTML, JavaScript

• Designed network appliance product to allow browser-based secure remote access to applications on corporate networks, leading to the award-winning FirePass product and the development of SSL VPN market.
• Pioneered many core features of the modern SSL VPN. Invented Layer 3 SSL VPN.
• Set up engineering team in Russia
• Established effective agile engineering processes resulting in 1.5M lines of proprietary code integrated with many open source components and hardware
• uRoam acquired by F5 Networks for $25M

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