Diverse engineering services leveraging talented and experienced industry veterans

DEFINE

Establish product requirements

Select applicable technologies

Set roadmap &
phased project plans

Create deployment strategy

Analyze competition

DEVELOP

Create teams and processes

Implement custom software

Integrate off-shelf, SaaS, cloud services

Custom electronics design

Outsource manufacturing

CONSULT

Advise on go-to-market strategy

Facilitate transitions

Manage vendors and subs

Due diligence

Expert testimony

NWNetwork121

Rob Gilde has more than thirty years of experience in engineering and management, successfully bringing numerous innovations to the market, along with 15 patents awarded in the networking and network security space. Gilde was most recently Vice President of Engineering at Tempered Networks, a Seattle startup company where he established the technical team, infrastructure and processes, and created the current hardware lineup.  Prior to joining Tempered Networks, Gilde was Vice President of Platform Engineering at Apptio, where he led a major re-architecting of their IT business management product, and their transition to a cloud-based service.  Previously, Gilde was CTO at QL2 Software, an Internet data mining and business intelligence service. Throughout his career, Gilde has held key positions at several companies in Seattle, including Lockdown Networks, where he created Lockdown Enforcer, the category-defining Network Access Control appliance, and F5 Networks, where he led the architecture and development of BIG-IP, which continues to be the market-leading application delivery controller product.  Prior to F5, Gilde was a Principal Engineer with The Boeing Company, where he helped advance state of the art in avionics and command/control systems. Gilde holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University.

Software

Embedded Systems

Kernels & Drivers

Web Sites

Deployment & Lifecycle

Most Languages and OS

Hardware

Circuit Design

Printed Circuit Boards

Electronics Enclosures

Custom / Modified / Off-Shelf

Regulatory & Certifications

Systems

Networks & Security

Database Architecture

Integration

Cloud Orchestration

Infrastructure

Analytics

Please contact us to discuss opportunities to work together. Available for projects of all sizes, from brief consults to long term engagements. Let Luminis supplement your technical team with different perspectives and experience. We can provide sanity checks or take on side-projects.