Karim Mchirki
VP of Product Management
About Karim Mchirki
As VP of Product Management, Karim works closely with the CTO in defining the 6WIND Product Roadmap. He helps the product committee cultivate the product’s vision and product solutions in accordance with the company’s business strategy.
Karim Mchirki has deep technical knowledge in computer science and networking. In addition to this, he has more than 15 years of Project and Product Management experience working on cutting-edge solutions in security and networking. He has been contributing to 6WIND’s success since 2015, first as a senior solutions engineer working on various strategical accounts in EMEA and Americas, and then most recently as the Global VP of Product Management since 2020.
Karim Mchirki holds an Engineering degree in Computer science, with a major in Telecom and Networking.
CUSTOMER STORY
“6WIND Virtual Security Gateway was able to meet our exact requirements by delivering a highly scalable, high performing, secure and sustainable solution which will provide us with the flexibility to grow cost-effectively. The 6WIND Team continues to help us adopt the solution into our existing environment seamlessly and efficiently.”
Max Urmanov, Director of Networking Engineering at CarrierX
CUSTOMER STORY
6WIND’s vRouters have the best virtual packet processing engine we’ve seen on any virtual routing platform. No other products we’ve looked at perform anywhere close to 6WIND”
Rick Jenssen, Senior Director of Consulting Systems Engineering
CUSTOMER STORY
“We took an innovative approach for an open multi-vendor solution to power our smart city initiative working with 6WIND, ADVA, Advantech, Dell and dacoso. Together we designed a secure open platform that powers edge cloud for IoT, video and next-generation services across our IPv6 network that can further be deployed worldwide across many verticals.”
Volker Bodenbach, head of technology and operations, WiTCOM