Ernst Hillerkus
Country Manager DACH at A10Networks
Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolErnst Hillerkus is a seasoned sales and country manager with more than 25 years of proven experience in solution selling for datacenter, network security and cloud/Big Data technologies, currently leading DACH operations for A10 Networks. He combines deep technical understanding of network architecture, SDN/NFV and 5G/DDoS prevention with hands-on channel and people management across national and international teams. Ernst has a long track record of enterprise account leadership at vendors like Oracle, Sun and Keysight, driving complex cross‑LOB deals and partner strategies for hardware, software and XaaS offerings. He founded and scaled a digital services company early in his career, which highlights his entrepreneurial instincts alongside corporate sales expertise. Based in Krefeld, he is known for translating technical roadmaps into pragmatic commercial outcomes and for mentoring sales teams through major technology transitions. His uncommon blend of founder experience and quarter‑century enterprise selling makes him effective at closing high‑value, technically complex deals.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bismarck elementary school, KrefeldRicarda-Huch College, secondary school, KrefeldBasic military servicecertificate of apprenticeship, certificate of apprenticeship at Training to the electrician, Dirk-Peter Voss, KrefeldSecondary school in Bad Laashpe, O-Level
German, English
Github Skills (200)
3d10
flutter-plugin10
skia10
material-design10
command-line10
python10
windows10
game-engine10
tray-icon10
dart-language10
code-reuse10
dart10
mobile10
service-locator10
fuchsia10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
benthillerkus/millimeters
Jul 2023 - Jun 2025
A Flutter plugin for determining the physical device screen size in millimeters.
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 1 year 10 months
flutter-pluginscreen-sizeflutter
benthillerkus/SpaceLovers
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Asteroids x Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 73 PRs in 1 month
gamenightasteroidsspacetimedangerous
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