Summary
Julien Sobrier is a Principal Product Manager in Campbell, CA with 19 years of hands-on experience building security products from idea to market, spanning IPS, firewall, AV, cloud and Kubernetes security. He combines deep protocol and signature expertise (HTTP, SMTP/IMAP, SIP, IDS signatures) with software craftsmanship in Perl, Ruby, C# and automation to consistently reduce false positives and accelerate releases. Julien has led product and engineering teams at startups and large enterprises (Octarine/VMware, Lacework, Salesforce, Zscaler), creating features like virtual patching and K8s risk scoring (KCCSS) and driving K8s audit-log threat detection and vulnerability management. Known for direct customer engagement and an appetite for technical ownership, he blends product strategy with security research and tooling—often inventing process automations and detection content that sit behind the scenes. Constantly learning network protocols and security practices, he brings a rare mix of researcher curiosity and product delivery rigor to cloud-native security challenges.
20 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Eletrical Engineering, MS, Eletrical Engineering at ENSEA, France
MS, EE (Computer Engineering), MS, EE (Computer Engineering) at Illinois Institute of Technology
Master, Electronics, Master, Electronics at Ecole nationale supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications
English, French, German