
Elia Zaitsev says most software companies exist for one purpose: to make their customers happy. But what he finds most thrilling about his 12-year career at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is that it has to please clients, while also making the bad actors it fights against unhappy.
“There’s a determined adversary on the other side of the table who’s doing everything they can, with significant resources and time and expertise, to circumvent everything that’s being developed,” says Zaitsev, CrowdStrike's chief technology officer.