Sascha Giese is a Head Geek at SolarWinds based in the company's Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in Cork, Ireland. He holds various technical certifications and is a Cisco ®  Certified Network Associate (CCNA ® ), Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA), Microsoft ®  Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), VMware ®  Technical Sales Professional (VTSP), AWS ®  Certified Cloud Practitioner, and Network Performance Monitor and Server & Application Monitor SolarWinds Certified Professional ®  (SCP). Giese has more than 15 years of technical IT experience, four of which have been as a senior pre-sales engineer at SolarWinds. As a senior pre-sales engineer, he was responsible for product training for SolarWinds channel partners and customers, regularly participated in the annual SolarWinds Partner Summit EMEA, and contributed to the company’s professional certification program.