Summary
David Riff is a Staff Solutions Engineer based in Barcelona with 11 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, currently leading technical engagements for SentinelOne across Spain and Portugal. He blends deep incident response and MDR expertise with presales leadership—managing RFPs, public tenders, complex POCs, and partner enablement—to help organizations adopt next-generation EDR/XDR architectures. Comfortable both in the SOC and the boardroom, he builds automation and internal tools that streamline sales and operational workflows while improving detection and response quality. A seasoned conference speaker and trainer, he also has a strong academic foundation in telecommunications and advanced cybersecurity training (SANS FOR508), which informs his pragmatic approach to threat hunting and SIEM/XDR tuning. Notably, his career path spans offensive research, MDR service architecture, and channel enablement, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on product deployment, integration and post-deployment improvement.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering at Hanyang University
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at Liceo Français de Valencia
Course FOR508, Course FOR508 at SANS Technology Institute
Master's degree Cybersecurity, Master's degree Cybersecurity at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Technical University of Denmark
Universitat Politècnica de València
Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, French, English