Summary
Ophir Hordan is an experienced R&D and engineering executive with over two decades of hands-on and leadership experience and 11 years in senior management roles, currently serving as SVP R&D at Checkmarx. He specializes in building and scaling cloud-native platforms, modernizing development practices, and driving shift-left DevOps cultures across globally distributed teams. Ophir has repeatedly led end-to-end delivery—from product definition and roadmaps to production stability—across security, marketing, search, and platform domains. A pragmatic Agile evangelist and mentor, he combines deep technical judgment with business-focused strategy and a track record of recruiting and growing cross-functional capability in engineering, QA, and DevOps. Notably, his career spans both startup and enterprise contexts, delivering highly scalable cloud services and leading international, co-located R&D organizations.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew, English