Jim Hansen is the vice president of strategy for applications, infrastructure, and security at SolarWinds, bringing over 20 years of experience to building and delivering simple and effective software solutions. Jim is passionate about meeting customer needs to make their jobs easier and their infrastructures both secure and seamless. He joined SolarWinds in August 2018 to build the security portfolio and has since expanded to cover infrastructure and application monitoring—operating under the belief that cost and complexity shouldn’t be prohibiting factors in achieving application and infrastructure performance and security, especially when the performance and security is mission critical to business success. Prior to SolarWinds, Hansen held leadership roles at AlienVault, Splunk, BigFix, and other security-focused software companies. He holds a B.S. in information and computer science from the University of California at Irvine.