Author: Martin Soukup

Martin Soukup leads Engineering and DevSecOps at Solink Corporation. Martin’s special talent is being able to see order in the chaos. His current focus is bringing his experience in cybersecurity, IT/OT convergence, and AI/ML in SaaS and IoT to the VSaaS world. Martin has over 25 years of R&D experience, 17 in the cybersecurity space, 18 in video, and 10 in AI/ML. He has led large teams in electronic design, embedded software, high performance networking, cloud, data analytics, and machine learning industries. He led ethical hacking teams for almost 10 years and wrote his first hack as a teen. He has run startups and held leadership roles in Fortune 500 and medium-sized businesses around the world. Martin holds a Master of Science in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool (Computer Security) and a Bachelor of Arts Psychology from Carleton University. He has also studied at the University of British Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Wharton School of Business. Martin has experience speaking about cybersecurity topics and technology trends at various industry events and forums, has numerous academic and trade publications, contributed to robots.txt, IETF, IEEE, ITU-T, Java, and W3C standards. He also has over 30 granted and pending patents.