Amiram Shachar
Co-Founder & CEO at Upwind
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2022 - Current
Upwind Security provides cybersecurity solutions to protect organizations from digital threats and vulnerabilities.
Raised $180,000,000.00 from Craft Ventures, Greylock, TCV, Penny Jar Capital, Cyberstarts, Sheva Capital, Cerca Partners, Leaders Fund, Alta Park Capital and Cerca Partners.
Vice President & General Manager, Spot by NetApp
2020 - 2022
NetApp specializes in data storage, data infrastructure, and data management solutions.
Founder & CEO
2015 - 2020
With cloud spend analytics and recommendations just as our starting point, Spot actively optimizes AWS, Azure and Google Cloud deployments with SLA-backed availability, fully automated infrastructure management and up to 90% cost reduction. With Spot, cloud consumers can effortlessly and affordably scale any workload, from stateful, single instances, to cloud-native clusters made up of thousands of nodes.
Director, Development Operations (DevOps)
2012 - 2014
Hands-on technology leader and problem-solver with significant experience leading system administrators and software engineers to build and maintain large scale cloud architectures. Experienced global manager with direct reports in three countries across the Americans and EMEA. Extensive experience with Big data and its ecosystem (Google BigQuery/Hadoop and Map Reduce jobs) providing out of the box solutions for “Big Data” challenges. Software architecture designer, fully leveraging Cloud's high availability and scalability capabilities. http://www.couchbase.com/presentations/couchbase-tlv-2014-couchbase-at-ybrant-digital
Team Leader, Linux Kernel
2008 - 2012