Ali Bidabadi leads the Global Cloud Architects team at Fortinet where he focuses on creating multi-cloud security reference architecture and providing cloud migration roadmap to customers. He has more than 15 years of experience designing and building Cybersecurity, SDN, and NFV products in public/private clouds and data centers. 

Prior to Fortinet, Ali was a technical Product Manager at Juniper and a Principal Software Architect at Cisco where he designed and implemented an NFV-based orchestration platform for Cisco’s Mobility Core Business (MCBU). He was a founding member of the Intel Security Controller team (ISC) and developed the L4-7 integration of Intel Security IPS with VMware NSX, Cisco ACI, and OpenStack/ODL platforms.