Andrea Roach
Regional Sales Director, Mid-Atlantic Enterprise at Cohesity
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolAndrea Roach is a results-driven sales leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling enterprise and commercial teams across the Mid-Atlantic and Eastern U.S. Currently Regional Sales Director at Cohesity, she has progressed through increasingly senior roles at Fortinet and Cisco, leading teams of account managers and driving go-to-market execution for complex cybersecurity and networking solutions. Andrea blends frontline sales management with operational rigor—having served as both first- and second-line leader for large territories and multi-layered teams. Based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, she pairs a Marketing/Finance and Business Administration background with hands-on experience in customer-facing strategy and revenue growth. Unusually for a senior sales leader, Andrea also contributes to open-source developer tooling—helping improve webhook examples in the popular SendGrid Node.js library—demonstrating technical empathy that helps bridge sales and engineering conversations. She is known for turning technical product value into repeatable commercial outcomes by coaching teams and refining scalable processes.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Marketing/Finance, Bachelor’s Degree Marketing/Finance at The University of Findlay
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
nodejs10
expressjs10
webhooks10
send-email9
sendgrid-mail9
sendmail9
e-mail9
sendgrid9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sendgrid/sendgrid-nodejs
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
The Official Twilio SendGrid Led, Community Driven Node.js API Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 45 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to creating and refining examples for webhooks within the SendGrid Node.js library. They added and updated routes for inbound parse and event webhooks using Express.js. These changes involved logging and parsing webhook data, which provides developers with examples for integration. They also fixed issues related to logging specific fields.
apitransactional-emailstwiliojs-apijavascript
aroach/git-intro-fork-example
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
An example repo to help students learn forking and pull requests
Contributions:10 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
pythonexample-repopull-requestsforking
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