Florin Virlan

As VP of Engineering, Florin Virlan is responsible for the strategy and operational management of engineering for the consumer business unit, implementing nimble engineering processes & methodologies based mainly on agile & lean software engineering, delivering operational excellence. As Engineering Director, Florin's team played a critical role in developing the technologies of the first hardware security solution for IoT, Bitdefender BOX. Florin first joined Bitdefender in 2003 as Quality officer. He then moved on to BluePhoenix Solutions to take on the role of QA manager before returning to Bitdefender in 2008 as QA Director. He then held various engineering roles, developing new teams and products, always with maximum product quality and improved time to market as a focus. Florin holds a diploma in Electronics / Computational Systems from the Polytechnics University of Bucharest.