Dan Benjamin
Head Of Data, Identity And AI Security (Prisma Cloud)
Israel
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Top SchoolDan Benjamin is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native security and data products across startups and large enterprises. Currently leading Data, Identity and AI Security for Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, he previously founded Dig Security (acquired by Palo Alto) and co-founded Silverback.ai, raising $6M and reaching $1M ARR respectively. His background spans product, engineering and go-to-market roles at Google and Microsoft, combining hands-on architecture (K8s, BigQuery, microservices) with customer-facing sales and RFP leadership. An 8200 alumnus and accelerator veteran (TechStars, Zell, MassChallenge), he’s equally fluent in technical depth and investor-facing strategy. He has a track record of turning research and prototypes into enterprise-grade offerings and mentoring startups as a CTO-in-residence and YL Ventures insider. Notably, he has repeatedly navigated successful exits and integrations, now shaping Data & AI security at scale within a major cloud-native platform.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Physics Electronics, Software Engineering Physics Electronics at RothbergZell Entrepreneurship Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Zell Entrepreneurship Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Reichman University
English, Hebrew, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
threshold10
duplicate10
sidekiq10
ruby9
throttling9
jruby9
client-library8
redis8
insertion7
google6
concurrency6
bing6
ruby-client6
cron6
google-cloud-platform6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ronreiter/fqzip
Dec 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:15 commits in 3 months
erated/omniauth-oauth2-souq
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
oauth2omniauthoauthstrategy
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