Rich Sutton
About
Rich Sutton is from San Mateo, California, United States. Rich works in the following industries: "Software Development". Rich is currently Co-Founder and CTO at Theta Lake, located in San Francisco Bay Area. In Rich's previous role as a Vice President Of Engineering at Proofpoint, Rich worked in San Francisco Bay Area until Apr 2017. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Rich was a Co-Founder and CTO at Nexgate Social Media Security & Compliance and held the position of Co-Founder and CTO at San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Rich was a Sr. Director of Engineering at Websense from Apr 2008 to Jul 2011. Rich started working as Director, 8e6 Labs at 8e6 Technologies in May 2006. From Oct 2001 to May 2006, Rich was Architect / Principal Engineer at Symantec. Prior to that, Rich was a Architect at Codemark from Mar 2000 to Oct 2001. Rich started working as Senior Software Engineer at eFunds in Sep 1997.
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* Engineering leader for social media security and compliance products. * Managed a team of 50 software engineers, data scientists, dev managers and QA on 4 continents. * Kept Fortune 500 customers delighted by delivering timely and forward looking features, addressing issues quickly and ensuring a high quality product experience.
* Co-founder and technical leader for enterprise-focused social media governance platform. * Responsible for building and leading a team of smart people who get things done. * Led the product from inception through acquisition: Conceived key intellectual property, implemented major components of the system, and ensured a high quality experience for Fortune 500 customers. * Cloud-based platform, Ruby, Rails, MySQL, AWS, Cassandra, Social APIs.
* Development leader for Websense's $300M+ Web Security product lines, including both software and appliance-based offerings. * Direct management of a team of 40 engineers in the US and indirect management of a team of 20 engineers in Beijing. * Product champion responsible for bringing together an understanding of the competitive landscape, the security space and general IT trends to drive the technical direction of Websense's secure web gateway products. * Designed and directed the engineering of Websense's appliance-based secure web gateway, which sold 4200 units to 1500 customers in the first two years after launch, generating $100M in billings. * Responsible for driving global technical collaboration between engineering teams in the US, China, Israel and the UK to more seamlessly integrate Websense's products.
* Set the vision, strategy and technical direction for 8e6 Labs, the organization responsible for building technology to classify and categorize web content for 8e6’s line of web security appliances. * Managed a staff of 14 developers, security analysts and content researchers.
* Provided technical direction for Symantec’s $800M per year enterprise client solutions, Symantec AntiVirus and Symantec Client Security. * Took a leadership role in all phases of the software development lifecycle, from collaborating with other technical leaders throughout the company on product innovation to identifying requirements with Product Management through design and implementation to managing defect queues with QA.