Victor Tavares

Director of Systems Engineering

Victor Tavares leads the Systems Engineering organization for Palo Alto Networks in Canada, where he is responsible for the customer and partner facing SE team. Victor has more than 20 years of experience in the networking and information security industry where he has worked with most of Canada’s largest enterprise, service provider, and public sector organizations. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks in 2014, Victor lead the Enterprise Systems Engineering team at Juniper Networks in Canada, which he joined through Juniper’s acquisition of network security pioneer NetScreen Technologies in 2004. Victor’s technical background extends to software engineering and development, cloud, and datacenter experience.