A Software Engineering Leader with experience bringing global teams together, developing and launching innovating products to market. Respected industry visionary who has co-founded a successful technology start up that was acquired, and managed a global software engineering team with more than 250 engineers. Possess exceptional abilities to solve complex problems in various disciplines. Strong people skills and track record of building strong teams. Extensive customer relationships and insight into their needs
Co-founder CEO @ From June 2012 to Present (3 years 7 months) Co-founder, CTO @ From February 2011 to Present (4 years 11 months) Fellow & VP Eng. Software and Solutions @ This position included management of a global software development team with over 250 engineers located in US (multiple locations), INDIA and ISRAEL. The team was composed by a mix of several acquisitions as well as organic growth. The responsibilities included integration of the different software stacks and the creation of innovative software products that are added value to the flag ship storage system of the company.
Working with customers and sales teams, strategic planning and managing of innovation.
The task included retention of the critical talent as well as hiring skilled engineers worldwide. From November 2006 to February 2011 (4 years 4 months) Co-founder, CTO and R&D Manager @ Co-founded StoreAge Networking, had the product idea and patents. A very scalable, out of the data path, storage virtualization software. The initial responsibilities included to be in charge of the development, hiring the engineering team, definition of the features, architecture of the product along with the initial coding. Other responsibilities included, OEM technical sales, customer pre sales, and support. Started with a small R&D team of 10 engineers and grew up to 60 at the time of the acquisition. Was part of the Board of Directors of StoreAge. From April 1999 to November 2006 (7 years 8 months) Software Engineer Manager/ Principal Engineer @ Software engineer manager developed a variety of software for embedded devices in C, C++, assembly, proprietary microcode.
between the projects:
- firmware for a RAID storage system compatible with AS/400
- microcode, assembler and firmware for a 3270 local channel mainframe controller.
- firmware for a graphic printer
- firmware for a mainframe printer controller From June 1992 to April 1999 (6 years 11 months)
BSc, Electrical Engineering @ Technion - Israel Institute of Technology From 1984 to 1988 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology From 1984 to 1988 Nelson Nahum is skilled in: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Spanish, English, Enterprise Software, Architecture, Software Engineering, Agile Methodologies, Storage, Storage Virtualization, High Availability, Distributed Systems, PaaS, Big Data, SaaS