Trust the Best
Snapt is a Gartner-recognized application security firm, working with thousands of clients globally and protecting over 10,000 applications. We look forward to meeting with you and discussing your needs.
Who is Snapt?
Snapt was launched in 2012 and provides solutions for application security, visibility, and control, for origin-to-edge in traditional, hybrid and cloud-native environments. Snapt ensures that business-critical applications, web services, and APIs are always on, always fast and always secure.
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Our services and solutions
- Snapt's application delivery controllers include load balancing, application firewalling, global server load balancing, and web acceleration. Our threat intelligence platform uses machine learning to provide global, real-time, enriched threat data to security teams. Snapt's experts leverage their experience designing and deploying high-performing applications to provide managed services for SecOps and load testing.
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Our connections
- Snapt has more than 350 customers from small businesses to large enterprises, cutting across financial services, health, government, education, and retail. We have close partnerships and integrations with popular and niche cloud, container, and VM ecosystems. Snapt has offices in San Jose, New York, London, Cape Town, and Johannesburg.
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Our people
- Our diverse team of software architects, developers, support engineers and commercial staff is constantly striving to innovate and make the world a bit better. We support each other, help each other to grow, and share a common purpose in changing the way people and applications are connected.
“Snapt doesn't just treat you like a customer – they make you feel like you are a real partner. They truly want you to succeed.”
Our Leadership
Our team creates amazing products for happy customers all around the world.
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Dave Blakey
Co-CEO and CTO
Dave Blakey founded Snapt in 2012 and currently serves as the company’s CEO.
Dave has evolved into a leading expert on DevOps, hyper-scale and programmability with deep domain expertise in high performance network systems, management, security solutions, and on-demand hyper-scale in an increasingly complex, fragmented and rapid changing environment.
He is a passionate advocate for advancing South Africa’s start-up ecosystem and expanding the global presence of the country’s tech hub.
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Doug Cherry
Co-CEO and CCO
Douglas Cherry is currently a partner at 4Di Capital. Doug brings 10 years of substantial VC and angel investor experience including various directorships within the 4Di Capital portfolio as well as external companies.
Prior to joining 4Di Capital, Douglas served as group controller at 4Di Group, a holding entity for various technology and non-technology based businesses. During his tenure, he held financial management and operations responsibilities for four 4Di Group companies, including ESET Southern Africa and Meaka Group International.
Previously, he was a financial analyst for all European operations of multinational sportswear retailer Foot Locker, headquartered in the Netherlands.
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Aalia Manie
Chief Operating Officer
Aalia, Snapt’s COO, is responsible for commercial delivery.
She was previously one of the youngest partners at a globally renowned law firm, having built a successful IP and Technology Law Practice.
She led South Africa’s first ever legal incubation programme and was recognized as one of the Top 200 Young South Africans by the Mail & Guardian.