Ophir Zahavi
Field CTO (EMEA) at Upwind Security
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOphir Zahavi is a Field CTO and seasoned cloud engineering leader with 18+ years building and operating large-scale, multi-cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP and private clouds. He has led global teams to standardize complex environments into secure, automated SaaS platforms—owning FedRAMP, SOC2 programs and driving 20–40% cloud cost reductions while managing ~$100M annual cloud spend. Known for turning fragmentation into predictable, compliant systems, he combines platform architecture, identity and runtime security, and cost governance with hands-on delivery of IaC and CI/CD at enterprise scale. Based in Israel, Ophir pairs customer-facing advisory work with internal platform strategy, translating regulatory and data residency needs into production-ready solutions. An early VMware specialist who cut his teeth in mission-critical IDF infrastructure, he brings a pragmatic, operations-first approach to designing Zero Trust and highly segmented cloud estates.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Information Systems Management, BA, Information Systems Management at Peres Academic Center
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (51)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ozahavi/bitnami-charts
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Bitnami Helm Charts
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
ozahavi/karpenter
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Kubernetes Node Autoscaling: built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
hands-onautoscalingperformancek8skubernetes
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