Torsten Stern
Global Practice Lead - NGFW at Palo Alto Networks
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolTorsten Stern is a cybersecurity and network engineering leader with eight years of commercial experience and a 20+-year technical background rooted in military cyber operations and systems integration. He currently leads the Global NGFW practice at Palo Alto Networks after progressing through roles from Professional Services Engineer to Global Solutions Architect for Public Cloud, combining field-facing consultative skills with cloud-native security architecture. Torsten helps customers adopt Palo Alto Networks’ Security Platform end-to-end, translating complex security requirements into scalable, operational solutions. Based in Mannheim, Germany, he blends hands-on implementation experience with practice-level strategy, often bridging professional services, cloud integrations, and product best practices. His technical foundation is complemented by formal IT business management and system integration qualifications from IHK, giving him a pragmatic view of security that spans people, processes, and platforms.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Professional of IT Business Management (CCI), Bachelor Professional of IT Business Management (CCI) at IHK - KarlsruheFachinformatiker - Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker - Systemintegration at IHK - Regensburg
German, English
Github Skills (23)
terraform9
graph9
provisioning8
infrastructure-as-code8
automation7
oracle-cloud-infrastructure7
ansible-module7
azure6
terraform-provider6
oracle-cloud6
ansible5
iaas5
security5
bare-metal5
oracle4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PaloAltoNetworks/pan-fca
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
Flexible Cloud Automation
Contributions:104 commits, 21 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 months
automation
PaloAltoNetworks/Azure_Training
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:59 commits, 111 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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