Christopher Van Der Made
Engineering Product Management Leader Cisco XDR
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolChristopher Van Der Made is an engineering product management leader with 10 years of experience, currently shaping response and automation capabilities for Cisco XDR and SecureX from Rotterdam. He combines hands-on engineering instincts—writing code and automating SecOps—with product strategy, roadmap prioritization, and cross-functional leadership on a global cloud-native security platform. Previously a developer advocate and distinguished speaker, he blends deep technical fluency (Python, APIs, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform) with customer-facing consulting and conference evangelism. He also co-founded The KUGI Company and advises on R&D, production and IT, reflecting a knack for turning technical concepts into consumer products. Notably, his academic work produced an automatic text-summarization algorithm, underscoring an ongoing interest in applied NLP and efficiency-focused tooling.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Information Sciences (track: Business Information Systems), Master of Science (MSc) Information Sciences (track: Business Information Systems) at University of AmsterdamVWO Gymnasium Natuur & Gezondheid, VWO Gymnasium Natuur & Gezondheid at Erasmiaans Gymnasium RotterdamCourse 101 Mandarin Chinese, Course 101 Mandarin Chinese at Chinese School Nederland
English, Dutch, Chinese, German, Latin
Github Skills (82)
ipmi10
office36510
servicenow10
api10
cisco10
fmc10
napalm10
parse10
twitter-search9
network-automation9
observables8
atomic8
python7
blocked7
ifttt7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chrivand/UmbrellaAdBlocker
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
chrivand/securex_incident_correlator
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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