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Carlos Pesset

Senior Trainer/ Consultant

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Carlos Pesset has recently joined Red Education with an enviable background of expertise across multiple major cyber security technologies, including Checkpoint, F5, Palo Alto and Fortinet. Before arriving at Red Education, Carlos worked for Checkpoint in Brazil, providing high-level support for VIP customers, as well as having worked as an instructor for more than 12 years.

Carlos tells the story of how he first became an instructor completely by accident. He was a presales engineer at the time, and when a Fortinet instructor in the same company left the business, Carlos was asked if he could step in.

He describes his first class as ‘terrible’ and says it was a similar story for his second and third attempts. However, by the tenth class, things started to run more smoothly, and before long, he says he found he ‘kind of liked it’.

Multi-vendor expertise

Gradually Carlos started to teach more courses, adding certifications and more vendors to his repertoire as he started to instruct for CheckPoint, F5 and Palo Alto Networks. At this stage, he was still working in pre-sales as well as in training. However, after a few years, the workload of doing both became unsustainable and Carlos had to make a choice. Luckily for Red Education, he chose to instruct.

When asked what he loves about teaching, Carlos says that he enjoys talking and sharing his knowledge and he also enjoys travelling, especially to experience the food specialities of other countries.

The decision to emigrate

Carlos then continued to specialise in training for over a decade. Although he and his wife were both happy in their roles, he had concerns about the prospects open to his children in Brazil, so he started to explore emigration options. He considered various countries, including the US and Australia, before being offered the opportunity to move with his family to Ontario, Canada in 2021. This move has taken him from the warm, tropical climate of Brazil to Canadian winters that can be as cold as minus 30 Celsius, something that his children have never experienced. He is excited that they will have the opportunity to grow up speaking three languages – their native Portuguese, and English and French as spoken in Canada – as well as being exposed to a whole new culture and being able to learn skills such as snowboarding.

Karate black belt

In addition to his many professional certifications, Carlos also holds a Karate black belt, second degree, having trained in the martial art for 20 years. He has also become a ballet dancer since taking his daughter to ballet lessons two years ago and deciding to join in, finding that the training helped his flexibility for Karate. As well as these active pastimes, Carlos also enjoys the simple pleasures of watching movies and playing video games at home with his children.

Carlos’ certifications include:

  • NSE-4 (Fortinet)
  • NSE-7 (Fortinet)
  • Solution Expert – 401 (F5)
  • ASM Specialist (F5)
  • APM Specialist (F5)
  • LTM Specialist (F5)
  • GTM Specialist (F5)
  • CompTia CTT+
  • CCSA R80 (Checkpoint)
  • CCSE R80 (Checkpoint)
  • PCNSE 8 (PaloAlto)
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