Michel Oosterhof

Customer Engineering Manager

Singapore

About

Customer Engineering Manager at Google with 20+ years building high-performing solutions engineering teams across EMEA and APJ. Deep security expertise across threat intelligence, security operations, incident response, and identity and fraud management. Creator of Cowrie, a widely used open-source SSH/Telnet honeypot for threat intelligence, and a regular speaker at the HoneyNet Conference. CISM, CISSP, CISA, GCIH. Dutch citizen, based in Singapore.

Experience

  • Google (Singapore · Hybrid)
    • Customer Engineering Manager
      Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    • Global Security Architect
      May 2025 - Feb 2026 · 10 mos

  • Director Solutions Engineering APAC at Anomali
    Sep 2024 - Apr 2025 · 8 mos

    Leading Solution Engineering for APAC for Anomali.

  • Solutions Engineering Manager - Enterprise - ASEAN at HashiCorp
    Feb 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Multiple roles in HashiCorp. Built and grew the team of commercial solution engineers across APJ. Responsible for hiring, enabling and coaching and performance of the team. After that responsible for ASEAN Enterprise Solutions Engineering.

  • Splunk (6 yrs 1 mo)
    • Sales Engineering Manager - Emerging Markets
      2019 - 2021 · 2 yrs

      Built and grew a team of 7 senior sales engineers covering Eastern Europe, Israel, Turkey and Africa. Responsible for hiring, enabling and managing performance of the team. Forecasting from a pre-sales perspective, education.

    • Staff Sales Engineer - Emerging Markets
      2017 - 2019 · 2 yrs

      Staff Sales Engineer for Emerging Markets (Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe). Splunk Architecture and Security SME for the region. Primarily working with the enterprise accounts in the region, including Oil and Gas, Finance and Aviation. President's Club in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

    • Senior Sales Engineer - Middle East
      2015 - 2017 · 2 yrs

      Security Sales Engineer for the Middle East

  • Senior Security Sales Engineer - EMEA at RSA Security
    2011 - 2015 · 4 yrs

    Senior Security Sales Engineer for RSA Advanced Security Operating Center portfolio. (Including NetWitness, Security Analytics, ECAT and Security Operations). Started based in the Netherlands, moved to Dubai in 2014.