Farbod Shirzadian, Principal Customer Architect at Elastic since early 2025 after progressing from Principal Customer Engineer (May 2023) and Senior Customer Architect, is a seasoned security and solutions architect with prior roles as Senior Security Engineer at Presidio, Advanced Support Engineer Tier 3 and Professional Services Consultant at Exabeam LogRhythm, and six years as a Network Security Analyst at UC Boulder's OIT; he holds a B.A. in International Relations with a Philosophy minor from the University of Colorado Boulder.