Summary
Thomas Runte is a seasoned sales engineer with nine years of hands-on IT security and professional services experience, now applying that expertise at WatchGuard Technologies from his base in Osnabrück, Germany. He previously led professional services at Greenbone Networks and spent a decade as an IT-security consultant at SIEVERS-GROUP, giving him deep practical knowledge of security products, customer-facing deployments, and team leadership. Equally comfortable with technical demos and bridging complex requirements to pragmatic solutions, he combines a developer’s mindset—still evident in his sailing-life GitHub hobby—with a strong track record in pre- and post-sales engineering. Colleagues rely on him to translate security technicalities into business value, and his unconventional lifestyle underscores a self-motivated approach to learning and problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer