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Sr. Professional Services Consultant, AI Security at Palo Alto Networks. Network security, SASE, and Python automation. Compulsive automator.
9+ years at Palo Alto Networks. Started in AI Security Professional Services in July 2026. Previously the dedicated technical advisor for one of PANW's largest global SASE deployments: 100,000+ users, 34+ regions, three clouds. I write Python that turns 35-hour manual processes into one-minute scripts, build AI tools my team now refuses to work without, and maintain a 50-service homelab because apparently I don't have enough infrastructure at work.
01 About
Sr. Professional Services Consultant, AI Security with 15+ years in IT and network security, including 9+ years of customer-facing experience at Palo Alto Networks spanning Technical Support, Customer Success, and Professional Services.
Started the AI Security consulting role in July 2026. Previously embedded as the dedicated technical advisor for one of PANW's largest global SASE engagements, 100,000+ users across 34+ regions on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Experience spans 34+ global regions, 50+ homelab services, and Python automation that eliminated 2,700+ manual configuration entries.
Combines deep PAN-OS and Prisma Access expertise with hands-on Python automation, AI-enhanced engineering workflows, and security research including OWASP Top 10 for LLMs.
02 AI Security Engineering
I use Claude and Gemini as daily engineering tools, not conference demos. Automated analysis, intelligent documentation, code reviews that actually catch things. Management saw the results and asked me to teach the rest of the company.
5-10 hrs/week savedIf we're deploying AI in production, we need to know how it breaks. I research LLM vulnerabilities, test prompt injection defenses, and run a local inference lab on Proxmox because some things you need to break yourself to understand.
OWASP LLM Top 10I kept solving the same problems manually, so I built tools to stop doing that. Real diagnostic utilities for real workflows, not proof-of-concept demos.
Production tooling03 Projects
50+ service security research environment across a 4-node Proxmox cluster with PA-440 NGFW (PAN-OS 11.2) and defense-in-depth across 6 VLANs. Local LLM inference, AI agent pipelines, OWASP Top 10 LLM threat testing. Ansible-driven IaC, Docker orchestration, Semaphore CI/CD, centralized SIEM (Graylog + OpenSearch), XDR (Wazuh), and Prometheus/Grafana observability.
Read the build logs →Python automation for DNS config management across 18 global Prisma Access regions, 150 internal domains simultaneously. Reduced deployment from 25-35 hours to under 1 minute (99.9% reduction), eliminating 2,700+ manual entries.
Enterprise Python tool using Strata Cloud Manager SDK to convert static address groups to dynamic tag-based groups at scale. OAuth 2.0 auth, intelligent batch processing (200-400 objects/min), comprehensive backup/rollback, exponential backoff retry logic.
View on GitHub →AI-powered diagnostic utilities including a GlobalProtect log analyzer for automated pattern detection and a PCAP analyzer for AI-assisted packet capture analysis. Built to accelerate security troubleshooting workflows.
04 Experience
Palo Alto Networks
Official title: Extended Expertise Consultant (Professional Services)
Palo Alto Networks — Embedded at Fortune 500 Clients
Santa Clara, CA
Palo Alto Networks
Santa Clara, CA
Palo Alto Networks
Santa Clara, CA
Aeris Communications
Santa Clara, CA
eFX-Computer
San Leandro, CA
05 Technical Expertise
06 Credentials
// Education
Mission College — Santa Clara, CA — 2015
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