Roland Dobbins is a Principal Engineer on Netscout's ASERT Team. He has more than 30 years of operational experience in the service provider (SP) and large enterprise arenas, designing, deploying, operating, securing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and defending many of the highest-visibility networks in the world.

He is a recognized industry leader in the fields of operational security (opsec) and network telemetry, and he has an extensive background in security product/feature innovation, devising operational security requirements for network infrastructure devices, and protocol design. His focus is on extending the availability, scalability, and security of the network infrastructure and the applications/services it enables, with an emphasis on flexible and resilient global service delivery capabilities.