Summary
Ron Pantofaro is a product-focused engineering leader with 11+ years delivering cloud-native SaaS, telemetry, and data analytics products at scale, currently leading a globally-distributed in-memory telemetry storage product at Google. He blends deep hands-on systems and architecture experience—from C++ storage and clustering work with EMC to building IoT ingestion pipelines and data warehouses—with product management roles across Google Cloud and YouTube. As a former CTO and startup co-founder, he pairs pragmatic devops and CI/CD expertise with customer-facing product delivery and go-to-market experience. He has repeatedly built data platforms and integrations (Looker, Redshift, Salesforce/Marketo) that turned technical capability into measurable business impact. Colleagues rely on him to bridge engineering rigor and product strategy while still contributing directly to architecture and implementation. Based in the New York metro area, he’s equally comfortable shaping billion-user telemetry systems and mentoring teams to ship reliable, production-grade services.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Software Engineering, Certificate Software Engineering at Mamram, The IDF Software Academy
Gimnasia Realit High School
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
Officers Training, Officers Training at Israeli Army Officer Training Academy
Hebrew, English