Experience

Wavefront® by VMware®

• Sr. Director R&D

  • Jan 2018 - Present

  Tanzu observability by Wavefront is a massively scalable, SaaS-based observability solution that allows customers to gain real-time visibility into the status of their applications and infrastructure, get alerted when it is not healthy, and enable a fast analysis to root cause and remediate the issue. * Leading engineering for the Tanzu Observability organization * Transformed the product from a powerful metrics platform to an observability solution. Including adding distributed tracing and logging solutions to complete the observability journey. With a focus on ease of use, customer value, and user workflows. * Grew the organization from 15 developers to 150+ engineers * Responsible for massive growth of the business, 30x ARR over 4 years, from 20 to 350+ customers, * 50% improvement on COGs * Reshaped the organization's culture to build a more inclusive, diverse, and scalable culture that better matches current and future growth challenges. * Unified the Wavefront and the Pivotal observability teams under a single organization. Leading the team through the changes, building new strategies, and restructuring the organization to fit new business needs.



VMware

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), Director R&D

  • Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) is VMware's enterprise-level distribution of OpenStack, the best OpenStack distribution for the enterprise.VIO provides a true developer-friendly IaaS that allows enterprises to offer their developers an "AWS-like" experience in a private cloud. VIO is aimed at VMware customers and focuses on providing OpenStack on top of VMware stack (vSphere, NSX, vSAN) to create infrastructure as code, private cloud solution leveraging the facto standard OpenStack APIs.VIO introduce also VIOK which is a Kubernetes as a service solution on top of VIO and vSphere.* Leading VIO engineering* Develop product strategy and business objectives* Added Kubernetes as a service on top of vSphere and OpenStack by leveraging the OpenStack APIs and allowing users to supply self-service Kubernetes for developers * Transformed team process from waterfall to Agile improving velocity and focused development

• Cloud Management Platform (CMP), Director R&D

  • Oct 2014 - Jan 2016

  Cloud Management Platform (CMP) is an integrated products solution that delivers a cohesive customer experience to manage public, private, and hybrid clouds.Delivering a service-oriented platform that will enable customers of all market segments to easily consume the VMware vRealize products and services in a cohesive and integrated way* Building the team vision and methodology from ideation to a plan* Focus on continuous delivery methodology through SaaS* Practicing agile process

• vROps, Director R&D

  • Oct 2013 - Oct 2014

  vROps is a leading cloud management solution that automates operations management by leveraging unique analytics and by creating a coherent, unified approach to performance, capacity, and configuration management* Lead and manage the merge of 2 groups, Hyperic and VIN, into a new group in the vROps organization (50 engineers)* Group responsible for enhancing vROps with Hyperic and VIN's functionalities* Practicing agile process* Java, Gemfire, SQL, big data

• Hyperic, R&D Group Leader, Director

  • Jun 2011 - Oct 2013

  Hyperic is an open-source, agent-based monitoring solution focused on application monitoring with strong, plugin-based, extensibility capabilities.* Lead and manage the Hyperic engineering organization* Built a strong, engaged, highly motivated team with a commitment to success* Turned around the project momentum to business success and in the process of a successful re-architecture for cloud-scale.* Grow the team from 5 to 35 engineers through a transition from SF to Israel.* Practicing Agile – scrum process* Java, Spring, SQL, Cassandra, RabbitMQ

• ClearSkies, Sr. Manager R&D

  • Aug 2010 - Jun 2011

  ClearSkies was an incubation project for log management based on unstructured data analysis.* Built a query-based search engine solution to create tabular views above unstructured data* Team ramped up rapidly into new technologies with a fast learning curve* Many Open source technologies: Apache Lucene, Hadoop, ElasticSearch, GWT, Solr, and more* Java, Spring, Maven, GWT

• iOPs, Sr. Manager R&D

  • Aug 2009 - Aug 2010

  iOPs is a monitoring solution focus on the virtual and cloud environments• Built a server team for the vCOPs project,• Worked closely with teams in Palo Alto and Sofia to build the product together• Java, Spring, MySQL, Hibernate

• AppSpeed, Sr. Manager QA & Support

  • Jul 2008 - Jul 2009

  AppSpeed was an Application Monitoring solution that auto-discovered and monitored applications in the Datacenter* Lead the QA and Support Organizations for the B-Hive product in VMware* Lead the Israeli Site to a successful transition into VMware (with R&D manager and PM)* Released a successful 1.0 product within VMware.



B-hive networks

• QA and Support Manager

  • Aug 2007 - Jun 2008

  B-Hive was a startup that introduced a new APM methodology of automatic application discovery & monitoring based on network sniffing and analysisVMWare acquired B-Hive in July 2008* Built and Lead the QA and Support organizations* Grow the team from 6 to 25 engineers* Lead Israeli site (with R&D and PM managers)* Focused on Automation and on engineering processes and methodologies

• Developer and Team Leader

  • Nov 2005 - Jul 2007

  B-Hive was a startup that introduced a new APM methodology of automatic application discovery & monitoring based on network sniffing and analysisVMWare acquired B-Hive in July 2008* 2nd developer to join B-Hive startup* Owned the Application discovery and algorithms domains.* Built the algorithm for discovering and Identifying applications based on network traffic analysis.* Python, C++, SVN



Gilat Satellite Networks

• Satellite Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software engineer

  • Sep 2000 - Oct 2005

  Gilat is a Satellite communication leader * Joined Gilat’s telephony group as a student, and Grow to become the lead developer in the group. * C, C++, Embedded software development, PowerPC, VxWorks. Gilat is a Satellite communication leader * Joined Gilat’s telephony group as a student, and Grow to become the lead developer in the group. * C, C++, Embedded software development, PowerPC, VxWorks.