Summary
David Virtser is a seasoned engineering leader and security executive with 13+ years of experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure and R&D organizations from first hires to 50+ people in high-growth SaaS environments. Currently VP R&D and CISO at Shapes, he previously led infrastructure at monday.com where he shifted ownership left, standardized the SDLC, and ran multi-region production environments at scale. He has a strong track record of transforming teams and culture—moving companies from outsourced to in-house development, introducing DevOps practices, CI/CD, and container-based delivery. David blends hands-on technical aptitude (early full-stack and DevOps roots) with calm, egoless people leadership that prioritizes communication and getting things done. He’s comfortable across product, security and infrastructure boundaries and often drives both organizational change and engineering execution. Based in Tel Aviv, he pairs practical engineering craftsmanship with strategic operational impact.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Software Engineer, Software, B.Sc Software Engineer, Software at Afeka
English, Hebrew, Russian