Experienced technology leader and software expert with a passion for solving problems and creating value. Skilled in building and managing high-performing teams, driving product innovation, and delivering results in high-growth environments.
VP R&D, Hub Security | 2021-Present
- Built R&D department from scratch, recruiting and managing a team of 30 developers, DevOps engineers, and QA professionals
- Developed security software platform, leveraging confidential compute technology
- Lead development of Cyber security SaaS for Managed services: eASM, PT, IR Readiness, Phishing
- Developed DDOS attack simulation platform capable of running a wide variety of DDoS attacks and volumetric attacks
- Built and executed company roadmap, product definition and OKRs
- Post M&A integration: technical products, departments alignment and team restructure
- Secure software development lifecycle: implementation of best practices
- Hyper-scaled with the company from 25 employees to 500 via SPAC merge into Nasdaq
Head of Software Engineering, D-fend Solutions | 2019-2021
- Developed RF- and cyber-based autonomous counter-drone system, saving lives and generating over $30M in revenue from HLS, governments, critical infrastructure, and military customers
- Led all Engineering software related activities: backend (Python), frontend (Javascript), DevOps, and QA teams, overseeing a total of 20 developers
- Hyper-scaled with the company from 10 employees to 150
Manager, Firmware Engineering, Western Digital | 2018-2019
- Managed a firmware team for the embedded Flash controllers SoC product line for mobile phones
Director, Software Engineering, Adva Optical Networking | 2014-2018
- Led and strategized development of edge vCPE, enabling NFV and OpenStack Cloud
- Built multi-disciplinary teams of 25 software developers (C++, Python), automation and DevOps professionals from scratch
- Working with offshore teams
Member Of Technical Staff, Windriver | 2013-2014
- Lead development (~10) and architecture design of high speed data-path sw framework, over Linux with virtualization using Intel’s DPDK, to accelerate NFV in edge and datacenters
Sr. Firmware Engineer, Broadcom | 2012-2013
- Developed firmware for L2 packet processing SoC for 10/40 GBE NIC cards, used in common severs in datacenters
Software Manager, Celtro | 2004-2012
- led infrastructure team developing Telco product line aggregators (~10) used for cellular infrastructures
- Hyper-scaled from 30 people startup to 250 people with yearly sales of 30M$
Software Architect, Matzov – Israeli National Cyber Security Agency | 1998-2004
- Developed networking security appliances, research, reversing & cryptography, proprietary KMS protocols development for protecting critical and communications systems
Skills
- Object-oriented programming languages: C++, Python, Javascript
- Cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, GCP
- DevOps: CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
- Agile development: Scrum, Kanban
- Project management: Monday, Jira, Trello
Contact Information
- Email: ranlfg@gmail.com
- Phone: +972544308444
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranlfg/