Improver

Danny Melamed

R&D Director at BigPanda

Israel

An experienced manager with proven success in product design, software development, integration and test, both in start-up, as well as corporate environments.
Managing all product lifecycle aspects post-development, including software integration, verification and regression testing, operations, support, and customer engagements for enterprise storage products.

• People person, leading by example and firmly believing that we’re dealing with people, not resources.
• Managing multiple aspects of the product's lifecycle, from ensuring delivery of high quality, enterprise grade solutions, to logistics, deployments at customer sites and supporting production customers.
• Leading design and development of multidisciplinary, scalable and high-performance distributed storage systems on various platforms.

Summary of main fields of experience:
• Vast experience in software development of enterprise storage products.
• Management and technical leadership of large global teams of 100+ engineers, developing highly complex products.
• Managing development teams, as well as integration and verification teams.
• Leading all levels of customer support teams
• Design and architecture of complex Hardware/Software integrated solutions
• Leadership and management in a matrix environment

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Experience:

• Sr Manager, Tech Program Mgmt (Program Director) (Amazon Web Services (AWS))
• Research And Development Manager (IBM)
• R&D Director (BigPanda)
• Director Of R&D (E8 Storage (Acquired by AWS))
• Sr. Manager, XIV Core Software Quality (IBM)
• Development manager (Diligent Technologies (Acquired by IBM))

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