Amit Kanfer
Founding Investor at ScaleOps
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Kanfer is a senior engineering leader and founder with 10+ years of experience building and scaling security and search products, currently leading Elastic’s Search engineering organization across Inference, Relevance, GenAI, developer tools and Conversational UX. He co-founded and served as CEO of build.security, which was acquired by Elastic, and now blends hands-on technical judgment with product and go-to-market experience. His background spans embedded and network systems at Intel and Unit 8200 through senior engineering leadership at Symantec and Fireglass, giving him deep expertise in secure, high-performance systems. Based in Austin, he also invests early in startups and sits on founding boards, bringing operator insight to seed-stage teams. Amit holds an MS in Computer Science from UIUC and an MBA in Finance, a combination that shapes his data-driven, execution-focused approach. A practical pragmatist who “gets things done,” he’s known for turning complex research and security concepts into developer-friendly products.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance, MBA Finance at Tel Aviv UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science - B.Sc Communications Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc Communications Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
41reputation
10kreached
2answers
5questions
Github Skills (80)
heartbeat10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
packetbeat10
logstash10
rest10
json10
search-engine10
metricbeat10
observability10
filebeat10
java10
open-policy-agent10
authorization10
elastic10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
build-security/docs
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:9 reviews, 12 PRs, 231 pushes in 5 months
amitkanfer/opa
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
An open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 19 days
policysecuritypolicy-enginepurposeopen-policy-agent
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