Experience
Barracuda Networks — Vienna, Austria
Engineering Manager (Oct 2024 – Present)
Empowering engineering teams and driving strategic initiatives at Barracuda Networks.
- Manage three software engineering teams, enhancing team dynamics and individual skill development.
- Collaborate on engineering roadmaps, ensuring clear communication with partners and customers.
- Participate in AI developer advocacy, promoting ethical practices in generative AI within cybersecurity.
Software Engineering Lead (Oct 2014 – Sep 2024)
Responsible for the CG Firewall Control Center team in Vienna — a central component of the market-leading CG Firewall for globally distributed large-scale enterprise networks.
Software Engineer (Jan 2013 – Sep 2014)
Member of the NG Firewall Linux Kernel development team, focused on high-performance and security-critical data stream control and management.
Fachhochschule Technikum Wien — Lecturer (Sep 2015 – Present)
Teaching a course on firewall architectures, network security, cloud security, encryption, SSL/TLS, VPN, and secure connectivity. Supervision of students and master’s theses.
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology — Research Fellow (Jan 2009 – Dec 2012)
Postdoctoral researcher in biomedical engineering. PhD research on the quantification of daytime sleepiness and vigilance. Clinical trial design and student supervision.
Vienna University of Technology — Lecturer (Mar 2011 – Aug 2012)
Introduction to biosignal analysis, with a focus on EEG and its applications.
Frequentis — System Software Engineer (Dec 2005 – Dec 2008)
Embedded software engineering for distributed real-time systems in safety-critical applications. Linux kernel development in C and Assembler.
SKIDATA AG — Internship (2005)
Consolidation of source code management systems; introduction of a company-wide Subversion-based system.
Speaking
Barracuda TechSummit 2025 — Alpbach, Austria
At the Barracuda TechSummit 2025 at the Conference Centrum Alpbach, I presented on new and upcoming features of Barracuda’s network security products, and in a separate session on the implications of generative AI for engineering in cybersecurity.
