Summary
Robbie Jakob-whitworth is a Senior Solutions Engineer with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience building cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and customer-facing technical enablement across cybersecurity and automation. He combines hands-on engineering (Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, Go) with a knack for technical evangelism—often working in the field to deliver demos, POCs and partner upskilling across EMEA and APAC. As the first EMEA SE at Torq and former sole EMEA SE at Next DLP, he has scaled regional sales engineering processes from zero to acquisition-readiness, contributing directly to Fortinet’s acquisition of Next DLP. Comfortable bridging product, sales and engineering, he also has a background running hackathons and developer programs, which informs his collaborative enablement style. Based in London, he specializes in hyperautomation and HyperSOC workflows, blending deep technical craft with persuasive customer-facing communication.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Appleby Grammar School
Natural Sciences (Maths and Computer Science) Computer Science, Natural Sciences (Maths and Computer Science) Computer Science at Durham University