Vitalii joined Fortinet in 2019 and is currently a part of the EMEA CSE Core Tech team, where he focuses on fundamental security and networking features of FortiGates like hardware acceleration, performance L4/L7 firewalling, routing, and secure SDWAN. As a side activity, he keeps himself relevant in regard to integration with other ecosystem products such as FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator, and FortiSwitch. Vitalii holds a PhD degree in Computer Networking from I3S CNRS, and is certified NSE4, NSE5, and 2xNSE7.