About
Dan Wendlandt is co-founder and CEO of Isovalent, now part of Cisco, where he currently serves as VP of Cloud Native Networking & Security. He has worked on eBPF-powered networking and security solutions, including the Cilium project, designed for container and microservices environments. His background spans computer networking, security, open source software, Kubernetes, and datacenter infrastructure.
Founder at Isovalent
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Experience
- IsovalentVP of Cloud Native Networking & Security (Leading Isovalent @ Cisco)current2024 — present
- IsovalentCo-founder / CEO2017 — 2024
- Andreessen HorowitzPartner2016Menlo Park, CA
- VMwareDirector of Product Management for Cloud Native Infrastructure2013 — 2016Palo Alto, CA
- VMwareSr. Product Line Manager - Networking2012 — 2013Palo Alto, CA
- nicira networks (acquired by VMware)Director of Product Mgmt.2008 — 2012
- OpenStackOpenStack Neutron (aka Quantum) hacker & PTL2011 — 2012
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityPhD student2005 — 2008
- Googleengineering intern2005
- Lawrence Livermore National LabIntern2004
- Plumtree Softwareintern2002
Skills & more
Cloud Computing69Security16Networking18Virtualization51Data Center35Distributed Systems23Software Development10Scalability8Product Management5Software Engineering3Routing3software defined networking2
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General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
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General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Andrew Chen
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
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Ali Yahya
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Dan Wendlandt?
- Dan Wendlandt is co-founder and CEO of Isovalent, now part of Cisco, where he currently serves as VP of Cloud Native Networking & Security. He has worked on eBPF-powered networking and security solutions, including the Cilium project, designed for container and microservices environments. His background spans computer networking, security, open source software, Kubernetes, and datacenter infrastructure.
- Where does Dan Wendlandt work?
- Dan Wendlandt is Founder of Isovalent.
- What check size does Dan Wendlandt write?
- Dan Wendlandt typically writes checks of $10K – $50K.
- What companies did Dan Wendlandt found?
- Dan Wendlandt founded Isovalent.
- Where did Dan Wendlandt go to school?
- Dan Wendlandt studied at Stanford University; Carnegie Mellon University (MS, Computer Science); Stanford University (BS, Computer Science).
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