Ernst Hillerkus
Country Manager DACH at A10Networks
Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolErnst Hillerkus is a seasoned sales and country manager with more than 25 years of proven experience in solution selling for datacenter, network security and cloud/Big Data technologies, currently leading DACH operations for A10 Networks. He combines deep technical understanding of network architecture, SDN/NFV and 5G/DDoS prevention with hands-on channel and people management across national and international teams. Ernst has a long track record of enterprise account leadership at vendors like Oracle, Sun and Keysight, driving complex cross‑LOB deals and partner strategies for hardware, software and XaaS offerings. He founded and scaled a digital services company early in his career, which highlights his entrepreneurial instincts alongside corporate sales expertise. Based in Krefeld, he is known for translating technical roadmaps into pragmatic commercial outcomes and for mentoring sales teams through major technology transitions. His uncommon blend of founder experience and quarter‑century enterprise selling makes him effective at closing high‑value, technically complex deals.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bismarck elementary school, KrefeldRicarda-Huch College, secondary school, KrefeldBasic military servicecertificate of apprenticeship, certificate of apprenticeship at Training to the electrician, Dirk-Peter Voss, KrefeldSecondary school in Bad Laashpe, O-Level
German, English
Github Skills (200)
exporter10
specification10
skia10
flutter-hooks10
desktop10
material-design10
command-line10
windows10
spotify-api10
game-engine10
code-reuse10
editor10
dart10
mobile10
service-locator10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
benthillerkus/SpaceLovers
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Asteroids x Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 73 PRs in 1 month
gamenightasteroidsspacetimedangerous
ogierm/animation_nodes
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.
Contributions:1 release, 40 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 3 months
motion-graphicsscriptingblendervisual-scriptingmotion
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