Itamar Heim
Vice President & Distinguished Engineer, Ecosystem Engineering at Red Hat
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolItamar Heim is a seasoned technology executive and distinguished engineer with over two decades of experience leading complex cloud, virtualization, and ecosystem engineering efforts from product inception to global partner programs. As Vice President at Red Hat he drives strategy and scaling across Kubernetes-native infrastructure, virtualization (RHV/CNV), storage, OpenStack, and partner-centric solutions for industries like Telco, Edge, AI, and finance. He combines hands-on engineering roots—contributing to upstream projects such as oVirt—with a proven ability to found businesses, raise VC, and build high-performing teams that translate technical capabilities into commercial offerings. Known for bridging technical depth with executive communication, he has repeatedly led large migrations and platform transitions (e.g., language/DB platform conversions) and shaped product roadmaps aligned to customer needs. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs an MBA in Technology Management with a computer science background to operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and ecosystem growth. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical vision that unites open-source community work with enterprise-grade delivery.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Technology Management and Information Systems, MBA, Technology Management and Information Systems at Tel Aviv UniversityBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (10)
management10
javas10
backend10
back-end-development10
java10
virtualization10
apidoc9
api9
configuration-management9
sql5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/ovirt-engine
May 2012 - May 2013
The oVirt Engine virtualization manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Itamar primarily contributed to the oVirt Engine's back-end and user interface components, focusing on code adjustments to correct product naming and version references within the codebase. Their work involved updating API resources, UI elements, and configuration files to reflect the correct "oVirt Engine" branding and removing outdated version information. Additionally, the user made minor changes to wording and default configurations, such as correcting spelling and modifying settings for system behavior.
defoldlibvirtovirtvirtualizationovirt-engine
itamarh/mashov
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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