Cybersecurity
10 CrowdStrike engineering leaders
These ten current and former CrowdStrike engineering leaders include CTOs for CrowdStrike's Global Public Sector and Europe, Middle East & Africa, along with vice presidents and senior directors of engineering. Readers can learn how CrowdStrike builds its SIEM and data platform, endpoint protection, detection, AI, identity and data-center infrastructure.
Professionals to explore
01—10Daniel Radu
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Engineering · CrowdStrike
Former Vice President, Engineering at CrowdStrike (2024–2026) and former Site Leader at CrowdStrike (2016–2026). The profile headline describes a former VP of AI Engineering role that built Charlotte AI and agentic security, leading the AI Engineering org behind Charlotte AI. Former Senior Director, AI Engineering (2023–2024), Senior Director Of Engineering (2020–2024) and Director, Research & Development (2016–2020) at CrowdStrike.
Erik G.
LinkedInExperience: VP, Product & Engineering, Continuous Identity · CrowdStrike
VP, Product & Engineering, Continuous Identity at CrowdStrike since February 2026. Former Co-Founder CPO at SGNL (2021–2026), former Engineering Manager at Google (2017–2021) and former CTO co-founder of Bitium (acquired by Google) (2011–2017). The profile describes more than a decade of experience in the identity industry.
Eyal Mamo
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · CrowdStrike
VP of Engineering at CrowdStrike since October 2023, and Co-Founder & CTO of Bionic, a CrowdStrike Company, since 2019. Former VP R&D (2017–2018) and Principal Architect (2015–2017) at Cymmetria, and former Research Team Lead at the Israel Defense Forces (2013–2015).
Guy Lawless
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Engineering · CrowdStrike
Senior Director, Engineering at CrowdStrike since February 2025, and former Director, Engineering at CrowdStrike (2022–2025). The profile says the role leads a globally distributed team of 70+ engineers across systems engineering, SRE, virtualization, object storage and hardware evolution, managing 150,000+ systems across 12 federal and commercial data centers.
Karan Sondhi
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Chief Technology Officer - Global Public Sector · CrowdStrike
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer - Global Public Sector at CrowdStrike since May 2025. Former Vice President, Chief Technology Officer - Public Sector at Trellix (2022–2025), former Chief Technology Officer - DoD Programs (JEDI & JWCC) at Microsoft (2020–2022) and former Chief Technology Officer - Blockchain Programs at the Central Intelligence Agency (2017–2020).
Kirby Koster
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Of Engineering - Endpoint Protection · CrowdStrike
Senior Director Of Engineering - Endpoint Protection at CrowdStrike since February 2021. Former Director of Engineering - Engine & Content Development (2018–2021) and Senior Engineering Manager (2016–2018) at CrowdStrike, and former Director Engineering - Security Management at McAfee (2011–2015).
Radu Weiss
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Software Engineering - Next-Gen SIEM Log Management & LogScale · CrowdStrike
Senior Director, Software Engineering - Next-Gen SIEM Log Management & LogScale at CrowdStrike since April 2024. Former Director, Software Engineering - LogScale (2023–2024) and Director, Software Engineering - Threat Intelligence (2022) at CrowdStrike, and former Software Dev Manager - Firecracker at Amazon (2017–2022).
Tony Meehan
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · CrowdStrike
VP of Engineering at CrowdStrike since June 2026; the profile says the role leads CrowdStrike's detection research and engineering. Former CTO and co-founder of Prequel (2023–2026), which the profile describes as a real-time distributed detection platform, former VP of Engineering at Elastic (2019–2023) and at Endgame (2014–2019), and former Technical Director at the National Security Agency (2011–2014).
Viswa Soubramanien
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering- SIEM, SOAR, AI Native SOC, Data & ML Platform · CrowdStrike
Vice President of Engineering- SIEM, SOAR, AI Native SOC, Data & ML Platform at CrowdStrike since 2019. The profile says the role grew the data and security platform organization from a 36-person team to 650+ global engineers across foundational infrastructure and ML platform work. Former Head of Engineering - AWS ElasticSearch at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2018–2019) and former Vice President Of Engineering at RedLock (2017–2018).
Zeki Turedi
LinkedInExperience: CTO for Europe, Middle East & Africa · CrowdStrike
CTO for Europe, Middle East & Africa at CrowdStrike since August 2020, a role the profile lists at the Executive level; a 2024 post on the profile describes hiring to expand the Field CTO team. Former Technology Strategist, EMEA (2018–2020) and former Sr. Sales Engineer (2017–2018) at CrowdStrike.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question: platform, data and infrastructure leaders suit questions about scaling telemetry and cloud systems, while detection, endpoint, identity and AI leaders suit questions about building specific security products. Public sector and regional CTOs suit questions about how customers in a sector or region adopt the platform.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you design a sensor and cloud pipeline that processes security telemetry at very large scale?
- 02What does it take to ship AI-assisted features into a security product that analysts can trust?
- 03How should an engineering organization balance rapid detection updates with platform stability and safe releases?
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