Erik Zaadi
R&D Director at Port.io
Israel
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Top SchoolErik Zaadi is an R&D director and hands-on engineering leader with 17 years of experience building web, cloud and CI-driven systems from early product stages to team leadership. Based in Israel, he progressed from software and support roles at XMPie/Xerox into senior engineering and team leadership positions at BigPanda, salto, Elementary and Port.io, blending full-stack development with DevOps and continuous integration expertise. He is particularly strong at introducing and operationalizing CI/CD workflows (Jenkins) and fostering developer tooling and collaboration across organizations. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational needs into practical, maintainable engineering practices while growing teams and mentoring engineers. Notably, his background combines client-facing support experience with deep engineering chops, giving him an uncommon empathy for both product users and internal developers. He currently leads R&D at Port.io, driving group-level strategy while remaining engaged in hands-on delivery.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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English, Swedish, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (169)
structures10
jquery-plugin10
python10
uploader10
data-warehouse10
analytics-engineering10
data-lineage10
automation10
data-pipeline10
ssh10
octokit10
jquery10
dataops10
devtools10
dbt-packages10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bigpandaio/docs.bigpanda.io
Apr 2015 - May 2018
BigPanda Documentation
Contributions:23 PRs, 95 pushes, 26 branches in 3 years 1 month
bigpanda
erikzaadi/AtomSitePlugins
Oct 2009 - Jun 2010
Contributions:50 commits in 7 months
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