Bar Katzir
Principal Product Manager at Proofpoint
Israel
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Bar Katzir is a Principal Product Manager with 8 years of experience blending hands-on engineering and product leadership in security software, currently driving product at Proofpoint after leading high-impact initiatives at Palo Alto Networks. He built the MSSP SaaS offering from ideation to market and owned product lines responsible for ~20% of revenue, combining technical depth—originally as a Demisto/Cortex XSOAR engineer and backend Python contributor—with commercial instincts. His background in computer science, statistics and an LLM in intellectual property law gives him a rare mix of technical rigor, legal insight and customer-focused strategy. Known for recruiting and mentoring engineering teams, he also improved CI/CD workflows and retention of Fortune 500 clients, demonstrating both operational and relationship excellence. An active contributor to the well-known Cortex XSOAR content repo, he has practical experience automating release processes and multilingual release-notes tooling.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Statistics Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Science and Statistics Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityMaster of Laws - LLM Intellectual Property Law, Master of Laws - LLM Intellectual Property Law at Bar-Ilan University
English, Spanish, Hebrew, German
Github Skills (5)
python10
file-parsing10
scripting9
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
demisto/content
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Demisto is now Cortex XSOAR. Automate and orchestrate your Security Operations with Cortex XSOAR's ever-growing Content Repository. Pull Requests are always welcome and highly appreciated!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1647 reviews, 1925 commits, 1497 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bar primarily worked on the release notes generation script, demonstrating expertise in Python. The user implemented new features for handling different content types and parsing changes. They also refactored existing code related to release notes with changes to file structure validation and added the option for different language support. The commits also reflect knowledge in file structure validation and error handling.
containerscortexsecurity-toolsorchestrationsecurity-operations
dekoder/content_olld
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
This repository contains all Demisto content and from here we share content updates
Contributions:45 commits in 21 days
pythonshareupdates
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