Michael Help

Cybersecurity • Cloud Infrastructure • AI/ML Platform Consultant

Principal Engineer | Netskope • F5 • Palo Alto Networks • 27+ Years Experience

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Expertise

Seasoned Principal Engineer and System Architect with over 27 years building secure, scalable, cloud-native systems. Deep expertise in Zero-Trust security (SASE/SSE), AI infrastructure, ransomware resilience, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and high-performance CI/CD transformation.

Currently consulting on cybersecurity strategy, cloud architecture, and AI platform engineering.

Consulting Focus

Cybersecurity & Resilience

Zero-Trust SASE/SSE • GenAI Security • Ransomware Recovery • Compliance Automation

SaaS & Cloud Infrastructure

Multi-Cloud Architecture • Terraform • Kubernetes • High-Availability Microservices

ML/AI Platform Engineering

Distributed Training • GPU Clusters • MLOps • Secure Data Pipelines

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Recent Experience

Principal Engineer — Netskope

Santa Clara, CA • August 2025 – Present

Architecting AI-Native Zero-Trust Secure Web Gateway (SWG) for SASE/SSE
Reduced dataplane build time from 4 hours to 9 minutes using containerized ARM64 environments
Designed C++ Dataplane Event Nexus (DEN) with ZeroMQ + gRPC for real-time DLP event forwarding
Led compliance and deployment standardization across commercial and regulated environments

Principal Engineer — Index Engines

San Jose, CA • April 2025 – August 2025

Built AI-driven CyberSense Cloud Management Plane for ransomware detection & recovery
Delivered cloud-agnostic platform using AWS ECS/EKS, Terraform, and Jenkins
Proposed five patents in cloud-native cybersecurity and licensing

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