Fahad Yousuf
Sr. Principal Professional Services Consultant - EMEA at Palo Alto Networks
Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolFahad Yousuf is a seasoned cyber security professional with over a decade of experience designing and delivering security solutions across large enterprises, telecommunications, and mission-critical IT/OT environments. Currently a Sr. Principal Professional Services Consultant at Palo Alto Networks in Riyadh, he has progressed through technical and managerial roles driving high-value projects, architecture reviews, and operational security for complex landscapes. His background includes hands-on design and deployment of multi-vendor firewalls, IPS, SIEM, VPNs and enterprise encryption, and he has acted as level-3 support for critical incidents—bridging advisory, implementation and incident response. Fahad pairs an academic grounding (PGDip in Computer and Information Security) with practical experience in healthcare and telecom sectors, where he led network security for major data centers and multi-million SAR initiatives. Notably, he combines strategic policy enforcement with detailed HLD/LLD work, making him equally comfortable shaping security strategy and tuning low-level controls.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PGDip Computer and Information Security, PGDip Computer and Information Security at University of LiverpoolBS. Engineering Electronics Engineering, BS. Engineering Electronics Engineering at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and TechnologyHigher Secondary School Certificate Science (Pre-Engineering), Higher Secondary School Certificate Science (Pre-Engineering) at Government College University (GCU), Lahore
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (160)
devsecops10
cortex10
security10
cli9
ssh9
orchestration9
command-line-tool9
tui9
financial-data9
orchestrate9
content-repository9
rust8
crx8
mozilla-firefox8
switch8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fahadysf/gp-session-limiter-ise
Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:12 releases, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 1 month
fahadysf/content
Sep 2021 - Nov 2023
Demisto is now Cortex XSOAR. Automate and orchestrate your Security Operations with Cortex XSOAR's ever-growing Content Repository. Pull Requests are always welcome and highly appreciated!
Contributions:12 PRs, 37 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
cortexsecurity-toolssecurity-operationsdata-processingsecurity
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