Jeff Martens
Senior Manager, Network Security Group at Sophos
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Martens is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade building high-performance teams and scalable distributed networking and security services. Currently senior manager of Sophos' Network Security Group, he brings deep product and architectural experience in next‑gen firewalls, high availability, and cloud security. His background spans SD‑WAN, DPI, identity and cryptographic key management with hands‑on delivery of multi‑core, high‑throughput systems and HSM-backed FIPS‑compliant designs. Jeff has repeatedly modernized platforms—driving API‑first strategies, containerized infrastructure, and MFA adoption—while growing and mentoring remote and on‑site teams. He combines systems‑level firmware and networking roots with cloud-native practices, often surfacing practical reliability and security tradeoffs that aren’t obvious at first glance. Based in Kelowna, BC, he pairs technical depth with a track record of turning complex compliance and performance requirements into production systems.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Engineering, B.Sc., Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba
English
Github Skills (18)
amazon-web-services8
asio7
boost7
aws6
server5
websocket-client5
http-server5
networking5
websocket5
linux5
beast5
ssl5
windows4
http-client4
client-server4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jeff-martens/primality
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
testingjavaclient-server
sophos-iaas/aws-cf-templates
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
CloudFormation templates for AWS
Contributions:8 commits, 14 pushes, 11 tags in 6 months
amazon-web-servicescloudformationcloudformation-templatesaws
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