Paul Reed
Sr. Principal Sales Engineer at Perforce Software
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Reed is a Sr. Principal Sales Engineer based in Toronto with nine years in his current sales-engineering trajectory and over two decades implementing virtualization and automation across enterprise datacenters. He specializes in designing SDDC solutions that blend automation, scripting and APIs with virtualization, storage and networking—backed by VMware certification and deep hands-on experience from large-scale ESX rollouts to cloud automation projects. At Puppet (now Perforce), he expanded into global technical enablement, product advisory and team leadership while continuing to drive customer workshops and pre-sales strategy. Known for translating complex infrastructure needs into practical, automated solutions, he also mentors engineers and develops technical enablement materials. Outside work he channels his technical curiosity into gaming and live guitar performance, suggesting a blend of analytical rigor and creative problem-solving.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
English
Github Skills (26)
puppet9
docker8
go8
kubernetes8
winrm7
monitoring7
bolt7
scheduling6
ssh5
kubernetes-monitoring5
websphere5
mesos5
pdk4
devops4
chocolatey4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
psreed/awsec2tags
Jun 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
psreed/noip_duc
Jun 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches, 1 issue in 4 years 9 months
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