Idan Frimark is an R&D team lead at Cisco specializing in data infrastructure and AI-driven insights, with seven years of experience building production-scale, cloud-native systems. He leads senior engineers delivering an ETL orchestration platform that processes millions of transformations to power contextual insights and agents for Cisco IQ, while establishing engineering standards and SRE practices. His background spans Kubernetes workload protection and runtime security, contributing to CNAPP integrations after Portshift’s acquisition by Cisco. Earlier roles in Check Point gave him hands-on Linux kernel and threat-research experience, blending security-first thinking with systems engineering. Idan is known for mentoring senior engineers and turning complex data pipeline requirements into extensible, maintainable frameworks. Based in Tzora, Israel, he combines deep technical rigor with a pragmatic focus on team enablement and delivery.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Communication System Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Communication System Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Envoy Wasm filter for traffic tracing used in APIClarity.
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Idan Frimark - R&D Team Lead - Data Fabric Cisco IQ