Bar Katz
CTO Of Silk at Armis
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBar Katz is a seasoned security-focused technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building embedded and networked systems across startups and enterprise teams. He co-founded Silk Security (acquired by Armis) and now leads Silk as CTO at Armis, blending hands-on expertise in embedded software, device drivers, Python and C++ with product and research leadership. His background includes leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, Facebook, and Unit 8200, where he bridged technical research, product management, and go-to-market execution. Known for turning low-level engineering challenges into product-ready solutions, he often operates at the intersection of hardware, firmware and cloud security. Based in Fort Lauderdale, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset shaped by rigorous military-intelligence R&D and commercial product scaling.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computers Engineering, Computers Engineering at Tel Aviv UniversityGithub contributions (2)
barkatz/I2CSniffer
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
barkatz/CellularBeeper
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 10 days
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