Summary
Paul Snow is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft with eight years of focused experience in endpoint and cloud security, currently leading strategy and product for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. He combines deep hands-on engineering and field-facing expertise—ranging from threat hunting and security monitoring to Azure and identity protections—with a strong background in solution architecture and technical sales enablement. Paul is a seasoned public speaker and author (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint In-Depth, 2nd Ed.), known for translating complex security needs into actionable roadmaps and rapid ROI for large enterprise customers. His career began in systems engineering and progressed through partnering and consulting roles, giving him rare end-to-end visibility from deployment trenches to product strategy. Notably, he created practical frameworks and enablement assets that accelerated customer adoption and informed product engineering through sustained field feedback.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
VWO Linguistics, VWO Linguistics at Linnaeus College Haarlem
ISC2 CCSP cert prep Cloud Security, ISC2 CCSP cert prep Cloud Security at Global Knowledge Netherlands
Retail Management, Retail Management at ROC Midden Nederland
Pace University
English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch