Summary
Andres Polania is a cybersecurity-focused systems engineer with 11 years of experience combining presales, solutions architecture, and product management across networking and security domains. He has driven go-to-market technical strategy and led RFPs, POCs and release roadmaps for vendors and service providers including Fortinet, Palo Alto and Aruba, consistently improving sales win rates and presales revenue. Comfortable both in the lab and in customer-facing roles, he bridges technical depth (firewalls, IDS/IPS, device migrations) with product priorities and UX/documentation requirements. Based in Barranquilla with a strong persistence ethos reflected in his GitHub bio, he’s completed graduate-level engineering management studies and often translates field feedback into tangible product enhancements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachiller, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Bachiller, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Colegio Nueva York
Master of Engineering Management Student, Information Technology Project Management, Master of Engineering Management Student, Information Technology Project Management at Universidad de La Sabana
Telecomunications Engineer, Network and System Administration/Administrator, Telecomunications Engineer, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
English, Spanish, Chinese