About Us

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Cloud Security for Startups

Konekti is the partner of choice for startups looking to secure public cloud workloads. We help businesses elevate their security posture through industry best practices in designing and operating secure cloud infrastructure.

Konekti Systems helps startups develop and implement secure cloud infrastructure, enabling them to securely connect users and workloads running across diverse locations.

As a startup ourselves, we have the flexibility to tailor our services to meet the needs of startups that must rapidly scale their operations and infrastructure. Our culture mirrors that of our clients which positions us to seamlessly engage with our clients.

Amir Tabdili, CEO

Amir is a 22-year veteran of networking industry, a subject matter expert on large-scale IP networks as well as a successful entrepreneur. Amir began his networking career in 1996 at Sprint as an operations engineer. At Sprint, Amir implemented the first inter-provider multicast network in the industry. Amir joined Juniper Networks in 1999 and excelled in various leadership technical roles over the next decade. At Juniper, he was instrumental in the deployment of Juniper products into numerous large service provider and enterprise networks. Amir founded Cypress Consulting in early 2011 with focus on providing IP/MPLS consulting services to large service provider and enterprises.

Amir has dual bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, and an MBA with focus in finance from the University of Maryland.

Jeff Loughridge, CTO

Jeff’s career in designing and operating large-scale IP networks began at Sprint in 1998. During his decade tenure at the Tier 1 ISP, Jeff held both engineer and management positions in the company’s Ops and Network Development organizations. His most significant contribution to the company was overseeing the effort to deploy 40 Gb/s IP over DWDM on the SprintLink backbone in 2008. Jeff founded Brooks Consulting LLC in 2009 to helps clients design, test, and maintain Layer 3-centric IP infrastructure in both the wireline and wireless segments of the telecom industry.

Jeff graduated from Duke Univerisity in 1998 with a degree in Computer Science. His writing on IP networking has appeared in publications such as The IP Protocol Journal and Network Computing.

Eduard Stumpel, VP Sales

Eduard has been active in the ICT business since 1984. After successful leadership roles with various software companies such as Micromuse and ThruPoint, he started Cypress as a consulting firm in IP-based Infrastructure Technology.

Eduard has extensive experience in implementing growth strategies and is a seasoned entrepreneur. He has comprehensive knowledge of IP based infrastructures for telcos and enterprises, extensive knowledge of OSS/BSS systems, and excellent knowledge of EAI, SOA and application development. Eduard holds a bachelor degree in Economics.