He specializes in highly scalable client server architectures, self-learning expert systems, as well as automated exploit detection and analysis. Prior to Qualys, he spent ten years at Microsoft where he most recently headed up Microsoft's botnet monitoring and mitigation efforts. Rami holds a Bachelor's of Engineering from Carleton University and has extensive experience in performance tuning mission critical systems. He has been responsible for projects ranging from MSN's ad serving, personalization and behavioral targeting platform to Microsoft‚Äôs enterprise antivirus offering, Forefront Client Security.