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Amiram Shachar

Co-Founder & CEO at Upwind

United States

Overview 

Amiram Shachar is the Co-Founder & CEO of Upwind, with previous experience as Vice President & General Manager at NetApp. He has a strong background in system architecture, cloud computing, team leadership, and project management, leading successful ventures in the technology industry.

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

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