Bob Andersen is the Senior Manager, Federal Systems Engineering at SolarWinds. Bob is a well-rounded technologist with extensive experience in Networking, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, and Computer Security. Prior to joining SolarWinds, Bob held technology leadership roles at Arista Networks, NetApp, and Cisco. Bob brings his years of expertise in managing Systems Engineering teams and sales territories to his work with the SolarWinds Federal team. He thoroughly enjoys high level design and solution architecture for complex networks spanning the full spectrum of networking and application delivery from layer-2 switching to a secure, virtualized, multi-tiered application infrastructure. He also brings a depth of understanding of Data Center infrastructures and its integration with Network Virtualization Function to his role at SolarWinds. His extensive and diverse experience helps him successfully bridge the gaps between networking and application groups of an organization, and to work with all levels of an organization (from engineer to executives) can help successfully move government projects further to benefit the agency's mission.