Brian Gautreau

Founder

Gautreau Nahas Capital Partners

Founded a trading firm after leaving F5. Full time on quantitative, swing, and intraday strategies.

• Trade options on equities and futures.
• Build the research and execution stack in Rust and Python, with machine learning models and LLMs throughout the workflow.

Senior Solutions Engineer

F5

Pre-sales technical lead across the F5 portfolio for the United States Army account.

• Covered the full F5 catalog: BIG-IP, NGINX, Distributed Cloud, application security.
• Translated mission requirements into architectures spanning data center, edge, and cloud; partnered with program offices through procurement and rollout.
• Served as trusted advisor on application delivery, zero-trust patterns, and modernization paths for legacy workloads.

Sales Engineer, Software Networking Business Unit

Brocade / Riverbed

Sales Engineer for the Brocade Software Networking business unit, supporting Cloud Service Providers across the Central and Eastern United States and Latin America.

• Exceeded 210% of FY16 quota; $5M+ in Software Networking revenue.
• Covered the Software Networking portfolio: Virtual ADC, Virtual WAF, Virtual Router, SDN Controller, SDN applications.
• Drove customer-requested features into the product: Transparent Caching, Direct Server Return, phone-home improvements, HA timer tuning.

Engineering, Support, Management, Consulting

Dell, Junior Achievement, Exodus Communications

Earlier career across engineering, technical support, management, and consulting roles.