The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Cloud Infrastructure  -  Director, Software Engineering  -  Red Hat

Red Hat

Senior Director, Data Development Insights and Strategy

Disrupting the cloud services business and corporate strategy by tackling fundamental business questions, driving data informed execution, enabling usage-based iteration.  With data and analytics at the core,  help accelerate and innovate on our customer lifecycle and value.

Director, Data Development Insights and Strategy

* Member of Red Hat OpenStack Leadership team. As such working on Red Hat’s OpenStack strategy and it’s alignment with Red Hat’s global strategy. 
* Managing engineering groups of 50 engineers working on cloud infrastructure to deliver Open Hybrid Cloud. The teams are working across all cloud footprints: Virtualization, Containerization, BareMetal. On public and private clouds platforms. 
* All the work is done using the Open Source development model. Projects like: Neutron (OpenStack), OVS (OpenVswitch), Octavia (LB OpenStack), Designate (OpenStack), Kuryr (OpenShift, OpenStack), Submariner (K8s),Lighthouse (K8s) and others are being worked on by the teams in my group.
* The groups are organized in ‘Delivery Focus Groups‘ (including DEV, QE and PM) to foster good collaboration across functions. The teams are following a 3-weeks sprint cadence and include User Advocate and Team Catalist roles for coordination.

Director Of Engineering

* Managing the Networking and Storage groups under cloud Infrastructure. 
* Working on Red Hat's global Networking strategy and collaborations. Drove technologies    consolidation across Red Hat's cloud portfolio as well as nurtured new technologies (OVN as a networking driver, Kuryr as a networking bridge between OpenStack and Kubernetes, Submariner to provide multi cluster connectivity etc.) 
* Joined the OpenStack leadership team, to work on Red Hat's OpenStack strategy (Roadmaps, new investments, resource allocation, alignment with Red Hat’s global strategy, processes review and improvements).
* Working closely with customers and partners, providing them support on Red Hat's product, understanding requirements and fostering collaboration.

Cloud Infrastructure, Sr. Global Manager, Engineering

* Managing 'Red Hat Openstack platform' networking group (Neutron) and the 'Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager' Networking group.
Globally distributed groups handling all aspects of networking in the cloud and datacenter footprints.
* My work includes leading both groups to work hand in hand with the community on making open source solutions first class alternatives for enterprise consumers.
* The group responsibilities include designing, coding, testing (automation) and productizing these solutions in the open source development model.
* My role includes interacting with customers and partners, understanding their use cases and expectations, feeding into the product roadmap.

Cloud Networking Engineering Manager

* Managing the networking team in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV­M). A cross functional team responsible for the server, agent, UX, and all aspects of the product which are related to Networking. I learned about Network Virtualization including OVS, Tunneling, SDN and NFV.
* As a team we worked closely with the community to understand the networking requirements in the cloud and data centers world.

RHEV-M Networking Engineering manager

oVirt is an open source project for Data center virtualization focused on KVM as an hypervisor.
RHV is Red Hat’s offering based on oVirt.
I was part of this project from it's foundation, being a key player and encouraging transparency, sharing and collaboration which are the three pillars of open source.
I promoted and presented the project around the word in multiple conferences including KVM forum2013, CloudOpen Europe 2013, Red Hat summit 2011, and other conferences.

oVirt

Board member and maintainer

* Managing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV­M) server group. 
Managing 14 developers, distributed across multiple time zones, working on delivering new features, improving existing features, improving the product quality as well as open sourcing the product.
* While open sourcing the code I learned and experienced with different open source maintainership models, contribution processes, roles of the board etc.
* led improvements in the development cycle: formalizing code reviews (Gerrit), adding CI (Jenkins), changing source control (Git), adding continuous reports of code coverage (Cobertura) and static code analysis (Find Bugs).
* Collaborated with Red Hat internal and external parties, including customers, product managers, and other products within Red Hat.

RHEV-M Server Engineering manager

Work on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, Java based platform, leading the server team
which included 4­-6 team members.
The role included gathering requirements, designing features, mentoring team members, coding
and doing code reviews.
Acquired understanding and experience with Linux (specifically Fedora and RHEL distributions)
and Virtualization technologies focused on KVM and Libvirt.

Team leader

* Worked on Data Center Virtualization, developing virtual machines (VMs) management platform. The platform manages all aspects of the VM life­cycle including storage and network configuration, scheduling policy, fencing, migration, snapshots, backups, etc.
* Responsible for porting an existing c# application to java using automatic tools. The conversion included server code, DB, UI framework and various scripts. My work included a lot of research which is described in my post ­
http://lpeer.blogspot.co.il/2010/04/switching­from­c­to­java.html

Senior SW Engineer

Joined an hedge fund to create a vision and build a platform for their algorithmic trading.
The platform included an application for describing the mathematical models, an application for testing the models on historical data and an online trading system which executed trading based on algorithms.
Initially I worked on the platform as a single contributor (design, code, gathering requirements from the analysts and traders). Within two years the product grew and I recruited a team of 2-4 engineers to support the growth.
As part of my role I mentored the team members, gathered requirements, managed tasks and drove the delivery schedule. 
The trading was done via integration to a well known trading platform using the FIX protocol. The application was java based, including Jboss as application server and MySQL.

Blau Capital

R&D manager

Worked as an engineer on a policy management software for mobile service providers.
My work included design, coding, debugging and looking into new open source technologies to incorporate in the project. The work was mostly in Java, using JEE, SQL, JSP and java script.
I was recognized as an Outstanding Employee.

Unipier

Software Engineer

Worked as a junior engineer on a billing management system using JEE technology,
Weblogic application server and Oracle DB.

Livnat Peer