Nimrod Vered

About Nimrod

Experience

1. 1

   1 yr 2 mos

   • Chief Technology Officer

     Jun 2025 - Present · 2 mos·Greater Seattle Area·Current

     Helping companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust.

2. V

   Voyager Capital

   • LP Investor

     Oct 2023 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos·Greater Seattle Area·Current
3. G

   Graham & Walker | Formerly FFA

   • LP Investor

     Oct 2021 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos·Greater Seattle Area·Current

     Graham & Walker is a venture firm that activates the potential of all women in business for the benefit of humankind. We envision a world where the founders, leaders, investors are more representative of the world they serve.

4. 1

   1 yr 2 mos

   • Senior Vice President of Engineering

     Jun 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo·Greater Seattle Area

     Syndio's Workplace Equity Analytics Platform identifies inequities in compensation, representation, and promotions to help the world's top companies close pay gaps, comply with regulations, and build trust.

5. 2

   2 yrs 6 mos

   • Advisor

     Oct 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo
6. P

   Plato

   • Mentor

     Nov 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs·Greater Seattle Area

     Plato connects engineering managers with mentorship from experienced engineering leaders.

7. 2

   2 yrs 6 mos

   • Chief Technology Officer

     May 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

     Uplevel is an engineering insights platform. We empower engineering teams with data and science-driven insights to be more supported, effective, and engaged in their work.

8. T

   Techstars

   • Mentor

     Nov 2021 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos·Greater Seattle Area

     Mentoring early-stage entrepreneurs on the topics of product and technology.

9. R

   Round

   • Founding Member

     Jul 2021 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos·Greater Seattle Area

     Round is a curated community of technology executives and senior leaders who support, grow, mentor, and learn from each other. The Round experience supports leaders who are at the forefront of technology, working on products and services that have an outsized impact on the world.

10. F

    Forbes Technology Council

    • Official Member

      2021 - 2022 · 1 yr

      Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community comprised of leading CIOs, CTOs and technology executives.

11. 2

    2 yrs 6 mos

    • Chief Engineering Officer

      Sep 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos·Greater Seattle Area

      Accelerating the expansion of the engineering organization through mentoring and supporting the next generation of engineering leaders. Skills: Growth leadership · People Analytics · C-Level · Executive

    • Senior Vice President of Engineering

      Sep 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo·Greater Seattle Area

      Leading the planning and execution of the engineering organization's modernization. Skills: Growth leadership · Executive

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    Microsoft

    • Group Engineering Manager

      Aug 2015 - Sep 2019 · 4 yrs 2 mos·Greater Seattle Area

      Designed and built Workplace Analytics (rebranded to Viva Insights) based on VoloMetrix’s trailblazing work in the area of people analytics to improve productivity. Ultimately enabling all of us to get more out of every moment of our life. Skills: People Analytics

13. V

    VoloMetrix, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft)

    • Vice President of Engineering

      Jun 2014 - Aug 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos·Greater Seattle Area

      VoloMetrix is a people analytics technology company that uses big data to optimize organizational performance, providing executives visibility into the daily activities and relationships that propel business forward. VoloMetrix’s technology helps improve companies’ organizational alignment, drive sales, and promote employee engagement. Working with Fortune 100 companies, VoloMetrix extracts and analyzes anonymous aggregated collaboration data to reveal unprecedented insights into how employee behaviors drive business outcomes. Skills: People Analytics · Executive

14. B

    Baronmor, Inc.

    • Founder

      2013 - 2014 · 1 yr·Greater Seattle Area

      Supported senior engineering executives to define and execute plans to build, evolve and maintain their software engineering groups. I help define engineering fundamentals, best practices, desired behaviors, gates to ensure quality deliverables and measurements to track progress.

15. 5

    5 yrs 1 mo

    • Director of Program Management

      2011 - 2013 · 2 yrs

      As part of the Trustworthy Computing / Engineering Excellence Group I was part of a team that defined, build & drove the engineering compliance & gating strategy for Microsoft's products and online services. I supported driving quality and compliance upstream by consulting engineering groups to help them fully understand how to build and design compliance into their products and services releases. In addition, my position entailed driving the planning and development of Quality Essentials (QE), an internal service used by Microsoft’s group.

    • Director of Software Development

      2008 - 2011 · 3 yrs

      Took over a post-acquisition engineering group so as to take the group through the adaptation phase of Microsoft’s culture. While doing so, I managed to retain top talent, recruited new talent and restructured the organization to support the business goals. I released IAG SP2 (a year after I joined) in parallel to working on the UAG 2010 release. I managed the DirectAccess development group in order to unify them into UAG’s release train, while helping them make the transition and remain focused on execution. After the successful release of UAG-DA 2010, I took over the TMG development team and rebuilt both organizations to support a larger charter (NAP, UAG-DA and AAG).

16. C

    Cisco Systems, Inc.

    • Senior Manager, Software Development

      2005 - 2008 · 3 yrs·Israel

      I joined Cisco as part of the acquisition of Sheer Networks. I helped build the ANA gateway development team while guiding them through the adaptation phase to Cisco. I managed multinational groups working on the same joint delivery and was responsible for the ANA gateway related components development throughout the releases of ANA 3.5.x and 4.0. I conceived, defined and executed building the escalation group to support ANA 3.x release trains. I lead the PSE program, together with a Nokia Siemens Networks team, as the first step to start the jointed management platform program. In addition, I drove my development group to implement the Scrum methodology (agile development approach) while developing the Orion 0.5 Program.

17. S

    SofaWare, Ltd.

    • Board of Directors

      2004 - 2005 · 1 yr·Israel

      Served as a board member for Sofaware, a Check Point daughter company.

18. C

    Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.

    • Products Operations Manager - Strategy Group

      2002 - 2005 · 3 yrs·Israel

      At Check Point I led the SmartUpdate product, starting with requirements to design & development. I led the product management activities including market and competition analysis as well as software development management. In addition, I built the cross company release management cycle for the main stream products (18 products shipped on a single CD), defining and executing the development of tools and processes to support this activity. Together with this, I owned the product management relationship with Nokia and products licensing from both a technology and business perspective. At a later time, I assumed responsibilities for the cross company product life cycle from the business processes (e.g. engineering, support, order entry, partner alliance and internal sales), as well as release cycle perspectives. I took part in CheckPoints’s strategic forum, reviewing and approving the topics for discussion, owner of the price list as well as setting the process to define and publish the business rules.

19. 

    SoftWatch, Inc.

    • Vice President of Product Management

      2000 - 2002 · 2 yrs·Israel

      At Softwatch I was responsible for the product life cycle related processes, including Functional Requirements Specifications and defining the product's 6-12 months roadmap. I was responsible for defining the release cycle and process taking the product through development, QA and documentation as well as composing marketing deliverables. As part of my responsibilities, I was managed 15 members in the PM team.

20. F

    Finjan Software, Inc.

    • Director of Product Management

      1998 - 2000 · 2 yrs·Israel

      Lead and managed the product life cycle related processes, including the Marketing Requirements Document, development, QA and documentation processes as well as marketing deliverables. I managed the product managers group, the technical writer and the malicious code research center (MCRC). In addition, I was responsible for the OEM relationships with Intel, IBM and Cisco; managing the marketing and sales activities in Israel; acting as the company’s spokesperson for Israel and Europe.

21. T

    Tadiran Telecom, Ltd.

    • VoIP Project Manager

      1996 - 1998 · 2 yrs·Israel

      At Tadiran I was responsible for the system requirements analysis of the existing VoIP products and the implementation of the VoIP technology within Tadiran’s next generation products. In addition, I was responsible for the creation of the Intranet site within the division (HTML 3.0, JavaScript and CGI scripts).

22. R

    Robomatix, Ltd.

    • Software Developer

      1995 - 1996 · 1 yr·Israel

      Developed AVI (Artificial Vision) machines to automatically perform quality inspection by image processing. Working on the control of the machine, integration, installing and end-user (customer) support. I developed using C and assembler under Microsoft; DOS native command line under P.C. and Intel micro-controller 80X196.

Education

1. M
   Microsoft Leadership Bench Training2008 - 2011
2. C
   Cisco Leadership Bench Training2006 - 2008
3. 
   Coventry UniversityB.Sc., Engineering1993 - 1995

Skills