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Wasil Banday

Wasil Banday

Lead Engineer - Solutions Engineering | Value Engineering | Customer Success
Dubai,

Summary

Lead Value / Solutions Engineer - Expert in Observability (Digital Experience Monitoring), CDN, Network & Internet Performance

Results-driven IT professional with nearly 11 years’ experience, specializing in enterprise observability and digital experience monitoring. I partner with global enterprises to define and execute end-to-end observability strategies that align monitoring with business goals—enhancing application delivery, DNS, CDN, SaaS performance, and end-user experience.

Leveraging technologies like Internet Synthetics, Real User Monitoring (RUM), Endpoint Monitoring, WebPageTest and Tracing through the Catchpoint platform. Trusted by top enterprises to ensure operational reliability, optimize performance, and improve user satisfaction.

Previously focused on Network Security (UTM) with certifications including ITILv3, CCNA, CSSA, VMware Foundations, and NSE.

Skilled in managing strategic accounts and engaging with stakeholders across technical and executive levels. Adaptable, consultative, and committed to continuous learning and value delivery.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
8
8
Certifications

Work History

Lead Solutions/Value Engineer - Strategic Clients

Catchpoint Systems
03.2025 - Current
  • Lead strategic observability programs for Catchpoint's Global Strategic Clients, with a focus on improving application delivery and network performance.
  • Define end-to-end monitoring strategies across diverse verticals (SaaS, eCommerce, Fin-tech, Media), ensuring visibility and performance at all levels—application, API, infrastructure, and network.
  • Provide expert consultation on observability architecture, driving initiatives that enhance system reliability, user experience, and business alignment.
  • Streamline observability workflows and define monitoring strategies across diverse environments (applications, APIs, infrastructure, networks), enabling proactive incident detection and root cause analysis.
  • Lead efforts to automate monitoring processes, reducing operational overhead and accelerating issue resolution across digital experience ecosystems.
  • Advise on and implement end to end observability solutions—spanning synthetic, real user, endpoint, network, API, and infrastructure monitoring.
  • Collaborate with customer success and account teams to drive strategic value, resulting in 30–50% YoY growth in book of business since joining.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to clients, enabling the successful rollout of new use cases, performance initiatives, and long-term digital experience strategies.

Senior Solutions/Value Engineer - Enterprise

Catchpoint Systems
10.2020 - 02.2025
  • Part of Account Post Sales Team, helping enterprise clientele (Forbes Top 50 companies) manage their application delivery / network performance by providing adequate monitoring strategy and consultation on performance data.
  • Experience in monitoring different application categories for our enterprise clients (SaaS based, eCommerce, Fin-tech, Media etc)
  • Understand Client's new projects/use cases and help in implementation.
  • Keep track of account activities, and accordingly play role in up-sell / renewal of accounts.
  • Help enterprise customers manage their application performance by providing adequate monitoring strategy and consultation on performance data.
  • Help customers optimize and benchmark CDN/DNS/SSL strategy by setting up monitoring for different levels of CDN/DNS/SSL architecture.
  • Experience in monitoring different application categories for our enterprise clients (SaaS based, eCommerce, Fin-tech, Media etc).
  • Well known to browser based automation/scripting (using selenium framework).
  • Monitoring Network Inside-Out & Outside-In using the Network monitoring capabilities (BGP monitoring, Trace-route, Endpoint monitoring).
  • Monitoring APIs in production (Backbone/Last-mile/Cloud Servers) and pre-production (On Prem Windows/Linux servers).
  • Part of dedicated customer success team for clients, help sales team in product renewal/presales/up-sell process.
  • Known to multiple testing/logging/diagnostic tools like Postman, Wireshark, WPT, Fiddler, Charles proxy etc.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions

Performance Engineer - Customer Success

Catchpoint Systems
11.2018 - 10.2020
  • Demonstrate Catchpoint solutions for prospects/up-sells, both onsite and remotely
  • Identify and develop Pre-sales/trial plan for prospective customers and demonstrate implementation based on customer needs
  • Identify client usage/adoption gaps as opportunities to educate the client and assist in the up-sell process alongside Sales & Client Success
  • Write and deliver excellent presentations; both business and technical focused
  • Work closely with product management in identifying customer needs and requirements, and validate future feature designs
  • Assist in Client renewal by identifying consumption gaps and educating customer on performance issues and/or availability issues on monitored Applications/Infrastructure.

Network Security Analyst - Enterprise

SonicWall Inc
06.2015 - 11.2018
  • Technical analysis across SonicWall product lines.
  • Solution Designing & Maintenance.
  • Trained Engineers on Technologies (Network Security) in India and Canada office.
  • Design, configure and test UTM hardware, networking software, and operating system software and diagnosing hardware and software problems.
  • Assist clients with deployments of Sonic Wall network security products like Firewall / IPS and VPN solutions and also maintain networks and related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
  • Maintain excellent product knowledge and apply it to deliver full system benefits.
  • Monitor and tracks issues to ensure accurate resolution. Working closely with Engineering, SE and other cross-functional teams, as needed and validate bugs, fixes provided through various patch releases, data backups, and disaster recovery operations.
  • Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures in order to protect data, software, and hardware.
  • Ensure that work performed meets performance and quality of acceptable business standard performance measurements and meets customer commitments while working with Higher Level Technical team members as needed
  • CRM Applications Worked On:- Salesforce, Siebel

Co-Founder | Management

Maizbaan.com (E commerce)
06.2013 - 12.2014

***Operated while pursuing degree

  • Develop and manage budgets for marketing, operations, and technology.
  • Develop long and short term strategies and tactics for growth
  • Develop culture of success and employee satisfaction & manage operations to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Meet revenue and profit targets & Develop brand and messaging to attract and retain customers.
  • Work with usability, site visits, and other user research to inform and validate designs.
  • Communication between development team, design team, and company management.

Education

MBA - Information Technology

Amity University
Delhi
08.2020 - 08.2022

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering

University of Kashmir
Srinagar, Jammu And Kashmir
01.2011 - 04.2015

Skills

  • Project Management / Sales Engineering (Pre/Post)
  • CDN / DNS / SSL / APIs - Implementation, Monitoring and Optimizations
  • Internet Synthetics RUM Endpoint Monitoring Network Observability
  • Scripting (Selenium/JavaScript/Playwright) and automation tools
  • Web Performance Engineering / Optimizations
  • UTM (Unified Threat Management) / Firewalls - SonicWall, Cisco, Fortigate etc
  • SASE Solutions, Routing, VoIP, SD-WAN, VPN Solutions
  • System Administration / Management
  • Windows Clients / Servers, Linux, MacOS
  • IT Infrastructure - Implementation / System Integration
  • Network Troubleshooting / Management
  • AWS / GCP

Accomplishments

SonicWall

  • Official Visit (Ontario, Canada)
  • Conducted Technical Trainings for the Hired Engineers at SonicWall Technology Systems Office in Ontario, Canada.
  • During my stay there, I also had a role in mentoring them with respect to different technologies linked to the SonicWall UTM devices.

Recognition @ SonicWall :

Dell SonicWALL Rising Star (Sept 2016), Top Performer (June 2016 - June 2017), Dell SonicWALL Quarterly Awards, Best Team Player



Catchpoint

  • Employee of the Year - 2019
  • Employee of the Year - 2020


Certification

VMware Foundations - vSphere 6.5 (License 334772306)

Timeline

Lead Solutions/Value Engineer - Strategic Clients

Catchpoint Systems
03.2025 - Current

Verified International Academic Qualifications - WES (https://www.credly.com/badges/bee00650-accf-4330-a3ea-900502b9c6b8)

04-2021

Senior Solutions/Value Engineer - Enterprise

Catchpoint Systems
10.2020 - 02.2025

MBA - Information Technology

Amity University
08.2020 - 08.2022

ICSI Certified Network Security Specialist (Cred ID 19692040)

06-2020

Fortinet NSE 1 Network Security Associate (License xKUAaSuu0R)

05-2020

Fortinet NSE 2 Network Security Associate (License VFP1TC8qB0)

05-2020

Performance Engineer - Customer Success

Catchpoint Systems
11.2018 - 10.2020

VMware Foundations - vSphere 6.5 (License 334772306)

05-2018

ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management - Axelos (License GR750363844WB)

01-2018

Cisco Certified Network Associate (License 420683751323FNXJ)

02-2016

Certified SonicWALL Security Administrator- Dell (License B4D9-8F8B-FB93-4D78)

07-2015

Network Security Analyst - Enterprise

SonicWall Inc
06.2015 - 11.2018

Co-Founder | Management

Maizbaan.com (E commerce)
06.2013 - 12.2014

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering

University of Kashmir
01.2011 - 04.2015
Wasil BandayLead Engineer - Solutions Engineering | Value Engineering | Customer Success