Summary
Michael Rieder is a seasoned pre-sales and solutions architect with 11+ years designing and communicating enterprise networking and security solutions for customers at Trace3, Cisco, and Salesforce. He blends deep hands-on expertise across routing, SD-WAN, ACI, F5, Palo Alto, and observability tools with strengths in technical sales, vendor alliance management, and business-case development. Known for translating complex infrastructure requirements into clear architectures and persuasive pre-sales engagements, he helps executives align IT strategy with measurable outcomes. Michael pairs technical curiosity—evident from a hobbyist interest in hacking and open systems—with emotional intelligence to facilitate change and lead cross-functional teams. Based in Zurich, he brings a proven track record in large enterprise deployments, integrations, and program execution that reduces risk and accelerates time-to-value. Notably, he moves fluidly between low-level network fundamentals and strategic portfolio-level decisions, making him effective in both hands-on engineering and customer-facing advisory roles.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Purdue University