Founder & Principal Architect, Saber Security · Sofia, Bulgaria
Eduard Agopyan
Eduard Agopyan is the founder and principal architect of Saber Security, a network, security, and cloud engineering company headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria. Eduard has more than seven years of experience building and operating secure networks across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, and sets the architecture standards behind Saber Security’s work on networks, cloud connectivity, edge security, Zero Trust, and automation.
Biography
Eduard Agopyan is the founder and principal architect of Saber Security in Sofia, Bulgaria. Eduard has more than seven years building and operating secure networks across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Eduard’s focus is connecting enterprise networking with the cloud and the edge: staged DNS, SSL, WAF, and bot migrations covering hundreds of domains, account audits, Zero Trust rollouts, and origin hardening, supported by Terraform and Python automation. Earlier roles centered on Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco firewalls and AWS inspection architecture. Eduard holds five Cloudflare certifications, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, and a B.Sc. in Telecom Engineering from Technical University of Varna.
Focus areas
Firewalls and segmentation: Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco
AWS transit and inspection: Transit Gateway and Gateway Load Balancer patterns
Edge architecture and staged migrations on Cloudflare
Zero Trust access with Cloudflare Access, Gateway, and the Cloudflare One Client
Origin and edge engineering: real client IPs, mTLS and Origin CA, keepalives and timeouts, cache headers
Automation: Terraform and cf-terraforming, Python against the Cloudflare API and GraphQL, Workers
Experience
03/2023 to present
Lead Architecture Engineer, Cloudflare and migrations
End-to-end Cloudflare delivery for enterprise customers: platform architecture and governance, account audits, enablement workshops, automation, and origin hardening. Executed staged DNS, SSL, WAF, and bot migrations for hundreds of domains with tested rollback paths.
05/2022 to 03/2023
Senior Network Security Engineer, HuvePharma
Fortinet-centric network security engineering for a regulated enterprise: FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiClient EMS, NGFW operations, SD-WAN segmentation, VPN, and change governance.
06/2021 to 05/2022
Lead Network Engineer, multinational food-supply group
End-to-end enterprise network and security operations across a mixed-vendor environment: FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks, and Meraki policy lifecycle, segmentation, NAT, VPN, and SD-WAN delivery.
03/2020 to 06/2021
Senior Network Engineer, Modis for Jack in the Box
AWS networking for a global quick-service restaurant brand: Gateway Load Balancer with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series transparent inspection, Transit Gateway route segmentation, and Terraform-based deployment with rollback plans.
06/2019 to 03/2020
Cisco Security Engineer, VPN technologies, IBM / Cisco
Global enterprise support for IPsec site-to-site and SSL remote-access VPN, failovers, and NAT changes.
Organizations
Eduard Agopyan has delivered work for teams at Greenyard, Jack in the Box, CBI Health, NordClima, FirmLocator, and SK Studio.
Certifications
Cloudflare Zero Trust Essentials
Cloudflare Zero Trust Advanced
Cloudflare Zero Trust Engineer
Cloudflare Application Security Essentials
Cloudflare Application Security Advanced
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Education
B.Sc. Telecom Engineering, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria. Thesis: Android application security testing and wireless penetration testing.
Writing
Articles by Eduard Agopyan on firewalls, cloud networking, edge security, and Zero Trust. Each article names its sources and shows the date it was checked against vendor documentation.
Cloudflare
Protect the origin behind Cloudflare
Network security
Firewall migration checklist: audit, convert, cut over
Zero Trust
Is Zero Trust required by NIS2?
Questions
What does Eduard Agopyan work on?
As Founder & Principal Architect, Eduard Agopyan sets the architecture standards behind Saber Security’s work: network security and firewall design, cloud transit and inspection, edge security and staged migrations, Zero Trust rollouts with Access and Gateway, and the Terraform and Python automation that keeps configuration consistent. Earlier roles covered Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco firewalls and AWS transit and inspection designs.
Which certifications does Eduard Agopyan hold?
Five Cloudflare certifications, three in Zero Trust (Essentials, Advanced, and Engineer) and two in Application Security (Essentials and Advanced), plus AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, a foundational AWS certification. The full list is on this page and on Eduard’s professional profile. Saber Security, as a company, claims no certifications of its own.
What is Eduard Agopyan’s role at Saber Security?
Eduard Agopyan founded Saber Security and serves as Founder & Principal Architect. The role covers the architecture standards, the design reviews, and the delivery method every engagement follows: staged changes with a way back, security designed in from the start, and documentation your own team can run without depending on anyone’s memory.
How can I check Eduard Agopyan’s background?
The professional profile at aboutme.sabersecurity.cloud lists the roles, dates, skills, and certifications shown here, and three published write-ups on migrations, account audits, and origin hardening show the method in detail. The insights on this site extend those write-ups, each with its sources named and the date it was checked.