Cihan Sahin

Cihan Sahin

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Founder @opsbeacon - Techstars '24 NYC
New York, United States

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  • Virsec
    VP of Cloud and AI
    Virsec
    Aug 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)
    Building Ottoguard.AI
  • reprai
    Technical Leader
    reprai
    May 2024 - Current (2 years 6 months)
  • opsbeacon
    Founder
    opsbeacon
    Aug 2023 - Current (3 years 3 months)
  • Registate Delaware
    Advisor
    Registate Delaware
    Feb 2023 - Current (3 years 9 months)
    Start a business in the USA in 24 hours from anywhere.
  • Safe Security
    Cloud Operations
    Safe Security
    Feb 2023 - Jul 2023 (6 months)
  • Safe Security
    Director, Cloud Operations
    Safe Security
    Jan 2022 - Feb 2023 (1 year 2 months)
  • Cisco
    Sr. Operations Manager, MSXaaS
    Cisco
    Apr 2018 - Jan 2022 (3 years 10 months)
  • Cisco
    Operations Manager, MSXaaS
    Cisco
    Aug 2017 - Apr 2018 (9 months)
    Built a new service organization from ground up in a very aggressive timeline. Successfully launched Cisco’s first VMSaaS customer.
  • Cisco
    DevOps Manager, Infinite Video Platform
    Cisco
    Jan 2016 - Aug 2017 (1 year 8 months)
    Leading a global team of devops engineers operating Cisco Infinite Video Solution 24/7.
  • Igniters Tech Law
    Advisor
    Igniters Tech Law
    Jan 2015 - Current (11 years 10 months)
  • Cisco
    Technical Lead
    Cisco
    Nov 2014 - Jan 2016 (1 year 3 months)
    Key tech lead role in the newly formed Cloud Video Applications group in San Francisco Office. Working on building cloud based video everywhere solution using modern agile, cloud and DevOps practices to help transform the video business. Infinite Video.
  • Cisco
    Marketing Manager, Service Provider Video Solutions
    Cisco
    Sep 2013 - Nov 2014 (1 year 3 months)
    Worked on marketing activities for IBC, CES and NAB tradeshows:
    ● Defined and developed technical demonstrations
    ● Creates demo messaging and marketing materials
    ● Provided training to sales people
    ● Project managed the demo implementation phase with outside vendor companies

    Worked on a special customer project for Globo TV during FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 by successfully delivering a visionary next generation video wall application called Future of Television or "Fresco". Project managed the overall project from start to finish including presenting the demonstrations at Globo head quarters in Rio.
  • Cisco
    Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
    Cisco
    May 2013 - Sep 2013 (5 months)
    Increased focus on next generation video services opportunities (cDVR, nDVR, TSTV) in North and South Americas for Service Providers and MSOs.
  • Cisco
    Technical Marketing Engineer
    Cisco
    Jun 2011 - Sep 2013 (2 years 4 months)
    Pre-sales technical marketing activities for Cisco Videoscape product line which is an end-to-end digital video management and delivery platform mostly for SP customers.
    • Customer / field technical training
    • Customer POC/Trial/Demonstrations
    • Customer TDM presentation on solution
    • Technical marketing leadership for solution
    • Competitive analysis

    Recently worked on delivering Cisco Videoscape Multiscreen TV Viewing experience at NBC Olympics in London 2012.
  • Cisco
    Software Engineer
    Cisco
    Sep 2008 - Jun 2011 (2 years 10 months)
    Test suite development for Cisco CDS-TV products. Developed/supported stream generator test tool suite used in testing our product which is now in production and delivering millions of VoD streams a day with a success rate of %99+. Helped building a mega scale system in Cisco Content Delivery Networks test lab using virtualization technology.
    Selected as one of the 7 Software presentation among 150+ applicants and presented my work and our team at Cisco Innovation Test Conference 2011.
  • T
    Embedded Design Engineer
    Teradek LLC
    Jan 2008 - Sep 2008 (9 months)
    Worked on an industrial DVR reference board design. The product was based on Mobilygen's MG3500 High-Definition Video compression chip.

    ● Primary responsibilities include board bring-up and hardware debugging of devices and peripherals of Freescale MPC8315 PowerPC, development of linux device drivers for devices on the MDIO, I2C buses; adding shared libraries and user space applications for those devices.
    ● Performed bring-up and initialization of PowerPC SGMII network interface between Serdes PHY and M88E6095 network switch.
    ● Experience with live555 open source RTP stack
    ● Using LTIB (RPM based, target image builder system with Perl build scripts) for firmware development.
    ● Attended pre-sales meetings
  • O
    Embedded Software Engineer
    Open Video Inc
    May 2006 - Jan 2008 (1 year 9 months)
    Worked on two products; an H.264 video server and an FPGA based LPR (Licence Plate Recognition) system. Both included Mobilygen's MG1264 video compression chip.

    ●Primary responsibilities include board bring-up and hardware debugging of device and peripherals of Cirrus Logic EP9307 ARM9 CPU
    ●Development/modification of linux device driver for devices on I2C, SPI busses
    ●Development of user space control applications
    ●Implementation of needed open source packages (ClearSilver, lighttpd, sqlite2 etc..).
    ●Developed linux application to control 5 port managed switch using SPI driver. Added CLI, webAPI, webUI user interfaces.
    ●Implemented MVC architecture with lighttpd and ClearSilver packages. Developed the co
  • M
    Network Support Engineer
    MIS Technologies
    Nov 2004 - Apr 2005 (6 months)
    Provide managed IT service for local small businesses.
    Provide remote management of MIS appliances which provides VPN, Web and Email Hosting, Firewall, Spam Filtering capabilities.
    Provide customer support via phone/email.
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  • Stanford University
    Advanced Project Management - Certificate
    Stanford University
    Jan 2012 - Dec 2015 (4 years)
  • California State University Long Beach
    MS, Electrical Engineering
    California State University Long Beach
    Jan 2006 - Dec 2009 (4 years)
    Digital Systems
  • Bogazici University
    BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    Bogazici University
    Jan 2000 - Dec 2004 (5 years)
    The president of IEEE Student Branch for two years. Brought the branch from scratch to a position where it can organize international events.
    ● Organized two joint meetings with Greek IEEE student branches.
    ● Initiated the group meetings for Istanbul IEEE Student branches. Later on, this turned out to be the biggest high-tech student group in the country named as TURKIEEE.
    ● Organized local company visits and educational seminars.
    ● Arranged internships for our members.
Projects (professional or personal) verified_user 0% verified
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    2012 Summer Olympics
    Jul 2012
    Cisco Videoscape Multiscreen TV Viewing experience at NBC Olympics in London 2012.

    Design and implement the network/storage and cloud infrastructure. Configure, manage and support onsite for the applications that delivers Time-shift TV, cDVR experience to NBC employees and guests in London during summer olympics in 2012.
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