Jona Apelbaum
Sales Engineering Manager Europe, Emerging Markets And LATAM at Wiz
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJona Apelbaum is a cloud-native architect and field engineer with over 25 years in IT, currently focused on helping enterprises design, deploy, and operate scalable microservices and service networking solutions across Europe and LATAM. He combines deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Envoy/Istio, AWS/GCP and HashiCorp tools (Consul, Vault, Terraform) with product and customer-facing roles at HashiCorp, solo.io and now Wiz. Jona has repeatedly accelerated time-to-deploy and improved operational efficiency for large retailers, healthcare providers and service providers by translating business needs into pragmatic technical architectures. He pairs technical leadership with strong presales, training and public-speaking experience, regularly authoring technical content and organizing community events like Cloud Native Iberia. Multilingual in French, Hebrew and English, he navigates cross-cultural engagements and complex stakeholder landscapes with ease. A former product manager and long-time solutions lead, he brings a rare blend of product sensibility and field-proven engineering.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Electronics ICT, Engineering Electronics ICT at Hogeschool Antwerpen
French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (79)
consul10
infrastructure10
microservices10
service-mesh10
data-center10
packer10
service-discovery10
vault10
golang10
libvirt10
kubernetes10
distributed-systems10
adobe-experience-manager10
api-gateway10
terraform9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lamadome/GlooOps-lamadome2
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 356 pushes in 1 month
japelbaum/sumaform
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Terraform configuration to quickly set up SUSE Manager/Uyuni environments
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
uyuniterraform-configurationsuse-managerterragruntsuse
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