Ali Bidabadi is Director of Cloud Architecture at Fortinet, leading a team of Cloud Solution Architects globally. 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 Public Cloud Solution Architect at Juniper and a Principal Software Architect at Cisco where he designed and built an NFV-based orchestration platform for Cisco’s Mobility Core Business (MCBU). He was a founding member of Intel Security Controller team (ISC) and helped develop the L4-7 integration of Intel Security IPS with VMware NSX, Cisco ACI, and OpenStack/ODL platforms.