Taylor Smith is the Director of Product Management at Exaforce Inc. With over 4.5 years at Palo Alto Networks, he has deep expertise in cloud security and product management, having served as Principal Product Manager and Sr. Product Manager for Prisma Cloud.
At Prisma Cloud, Taylor was responsible for managing three product lines and open source tools (Checkov, Yor, AirIAM), leading the design and execution of roadmaps for Code Security scanners, and driving development and adoption of open source tools. He also developed effective sales and marketing strategies for Prisma Cloud's code security features.
Previously, Taylor served as Technical Product Marketing Manager at Gremlin, the Chaos Engineering company backed by Redpoint Ventures, Index Ventures, and Amplify Partners. He also held corporate strategy roles at Cisco and led corporate development at NetApp, including the acquisition of SteelStore and SolidFire.
Taylor holds an MBA with Honors from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a BSc from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.
- Exaforce Inc. — Director of Product Management: June 2025 – Present
- Palo Alto Networks — Principal Product Manager: May 2024 – June 2025
- Palo Alto Networks — Sr. Product Manager, Prisma Cloud: April 2022 – May 2024
- Palo Alto Networks — Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Prisma Cloud: January 2021 – April 2022
- Bridgecrew — Sr. Product Marketing Manager: March 2021 – April 2022
- Gremlin — Technical Product Marketing Manager: December 2019 – December 2020
- Cisco — Manager, Corporate Strategy: August 2018 – December 2019
- Cisco — Manager (Intern), Corporate Strategy: May 2017 – August 2017
- NetApp — Corporate Development, Senior Analyst: July 2014 – July 2016
- Outcome Capital — Sr. Analyst: May 2011 – July 2014
- Milliman — Financial Risk Management Developer Intern: May 2010 – August 2010
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- Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2020, Deep Learning Specialization, Pragmatic Institute's Product Marketing Management Curriculum
