Nicolas Keller Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, TX, US

San Francisco, California, US

I am available to help you solve two of the costliest challenges I have seen unaddressed by most enterprises when using public or private clouds:- Not optimizing your cloud spend- Not properly configuring cloud services and assets, potentially leaving a door open for a bad actor to step in

Riverside, CA, US

• Fidelis Cybersecurity is a cybersecurity software company with two essential products:- a Hybrid CNAPP platform, aka Halo, formerly CloudPassage, which evolution I led- an Open XDR platform with deception capabilities.
• Proposed and implemented pricing models to meet the growing European privacy and information protection demand, initially targeting $1.5M revenue growth.
• Automated and tuned integration with Salesforce to provide a better buyer's journey for trials, resulting in leads being qualified in hours rather than weeks.
• Custom-tuned the CIS Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Benchmark findings to meet hybrid requirements when used within the Azure for Operators ecosystem.
• Launched the first configuration benchmark for Azure CBL-Mariner on the Ampere platform.
• Using market research and customer interviews, defined a strategic roadmap to transform Halo into the first Hybrid Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) protecting data center and cloud assets from.

Austin, Texas, US

• ClearDATA is a Healthcare exclusive cybersecurity and compliance service provider that evolved from protecting healthcare data in data centers to protecting healthcare data on all three major public clouds leveraging.
• Built the pricing models and then productized the billing platform for the ClearDATA SaaS and Managed Services offerings.
• Defined and implemented a billing system that allowed managing AWS reservations in customer accounts, decreasing our direct cloud costs by 8%, then later leveraged a FinOps partner to close to double these savings.
• Educated growing CSP customers on Azure economics to migrate them to Enterprise Agreements and leverage upcoming Saving Plans.
• Led the team that accelerated ClearDATA's Azure and Microsoft 365 Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) offering, working closely with customers to increase adoption in critical accounts.
• Maintained public and private offers in the Azure marketplace to simplify and better secure at-scale ClearDATA observability in over 350 customer subscriptions in a multi-tenant environment.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• I was part of the Dell IT Emerging Technologies and User Experience team, enabling cloud adoption within Dell IT. I also represented Dell IT at customer and industry events like the OpenStack and Red Hat summits.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• As part of the Dell exploratory efforts around delivering a public cloud platform, I was responsible for defining all technical and financial aspects of potential infrastructure options for providing OpenStack-based.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• I led the Research and Development (R&D) team responsible for defining and validating infrastructure options to support the Rackspace public cloud portfolios, concentrating on OpenStack Nova and Swift.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• I led an internal evangelism effort to disseminate Cloud knowledge to the Managed Hosting customer-facing account teams and provided best-fit expertise to existing hosting customers

San Antonio, Texas, US

• I led and managed the product and engineering teams, looking after infrastructure offerings and launching multiple hardware platforms and operating system refreshes, including Rackspace's first foray into.

Monroe, LA, US

• I drove the evolution of SAVVIS’ private network platforms, including general-purpose VPNs and mission-specific financial data networks.

London, GB

I was managing the teams looking after the planning and delivery of the BT/Concert global packet switched network (CPS/Tymnet, over 4,500 nodes worldwide) which frame relay infrastructure also became the basis for a global IP-based dial-up platform.