Dima Spivak
Vice President, Product Management, Watsonx
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolDima Spivak is a product and engineering leader with a decade of experience building data infrastructure and AI products, currently serving as Vice President of Product Management for watsonx at IBM. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at StreamSets and Cloudera, blending hands-on engineering chops with strategic product vision and GTM responsibilities. A long-time Apache HBase committer and PMC member, he brings deep open-source credibility and systems-level expertise in distributed data platforms. Trained as a physicist (MS, Northwestern BA), Dima applies a research-driven, experimental approach to product discovery and scaling complex platforms. Based in the Greater Chicago area, he’s known for fostering cross-functional collaboration that turns data-intensive research into reliable, production-grade products. Unexpectedly, his career path shows a steady rise from research assistant to VP roles, signaling strong aptitude for translating academic rigor into enterprise impact.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics at Northwestern UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Stackoverflow
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docker
top-5%
Github Skills (121)
docker-machine10
hbase10
seleniumbase10
docker-desktop10
web-automation10
bot-detection10
docker-registry10
docker-container10
dockerfile10
ecosystem10
docker-swarm10
golang10
database10
selenium-webdriver10
container10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dimaspivak/namemysprint
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Give your next sprint a dumb name
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year
sprintdumb
clusterdock/topology_apache_kafka
Nov 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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