Reza Shafii
Senior Vice President - Product at Kong Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolReza Shafii is a seasoned product executive with 11+ years leading cloud-native and platform product organizations, currently serving as SVP of Product at Kong where he scaled revenue 14x and built PM, Design, Docs, DevRel, and Growth functions from scratch. He specializes in guiding companies through technology inflections—cloud, DevOps, PLG-to-PLS transitions and the AI era—combining product instinct with operational rigor to align vision, teams, and measurable business outcomes. Previously he led CoreOS and Red Hat platform initiatives, driving operator/mesh/serverless and multi-cluster strategies that supported rapid commercial growth and strategic acquisition. Reza pairs deep engineering roots (BSc Computer Science) and an MBA with hands-on product execution, and he now advises growth-equity portfolio companies on pricing, monetization, and AI-enabled platform scale. Notably, he has shepherded enterprise products from early adoption to large-scale cloud deployments, ensuring more than half of Kong’s customers now run on Kong Konnect.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Product Management Certificate Center for Executive Development - Haas School of Business, Product Management Certificate Center for Executive Development - Haas School of Business at University of California, BerkeleyB.Sc. Computer Science (Honors), B.Sc. Computer Science (Honors) at The University of British ColumbiaMBA, MBA at University of Ottawa
English, French
Github Skills (11)
vault8
secrets7
security6
encryption6
hashicorp-vault5
raml5
golang5
go5
api3
access-management3
documentation2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rezaloo/r-trader
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
rezaloo/hello-kube
Mar 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
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