Summary
Edwin Sutherland is a Principal Product Specialist and Transformation Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering network and security architectures for large enterprises. He specializes in cloud-first Zero Trust, multi-cloud networking, IoT, and traditional campus, data center and WAN environments, translating complex business needs into pragmatic technical solutions. Having held senior architecture roles at Zscaler, Cloudflare and Cisco, he combines vendor-side product insight with deep systems engineering experience across global deployments. Edwin is pursuing advanced research in computer science (PhD candidate at Loughborough), bringing an analytical, research-informed approach to operational security and architecture decisions. Based in Milton Keynes, he is evolving from a seasoned network engineer toward full-stack engineering fluency, blending low-level networking expertise with product and cloud-native perspectives. Colleagues describe him as the go-to architect for secure digital transformation projects that must balance innovation, scalability and real-world operational constraints.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Loughborough University
Bsc Computer Networks, Bsc Computer Networks at Birmingham City University