Sagi Brody
- Engineering
- Advisor
- Leadership
- Product
- Fractional CTO
- Product Management
Seasoned CTO & CPO | Entrepreneur | Investing in technological advancements | Providing value through innovative & differentiated products
In 1998, Sagi co-founded Webair, an or organization which would eventually become a leader in the managed cloud and disaster-recovery services market. Among his numerous contributions, Sagi was responsible for product R&D, development, management, technical marketing, go-to-market, and many other aspects. With Sagi’s help, Webair was eventually sold, and later merged with two other successful cloud and BCDR organizations, rebranding as Opti9. Sagi still leads technical innovation at Opti9 to…
Work
Crest Rock Partners Invests in Cloud Service Provider Webair — Crest Rock Partners
- Entrepreneurship
- Fundraising
- Mergers & Acquisitions
https://www.crestrockpartners.com/news/2021/1/8/crest-rock-partners-invests-in-cloud-service-provider-webairWebair - The company I co-founded was acquired by private equity (Crest Rock Partners). This was the culmination of 20 years of hard work that resulted in a successful exit for my business partner, myself, and our larger team.
Announcing NYNOG and Board Appointments | Newswire
- Thought Leadership
- Education
- Mentoring
https://www.newswire.com/news/announcing-nynog-and-board-appointments-18738425New York Network Operators Group (NYNOG) provides educational events and programs. As part of my work as a board member I helped shape the non-for-profit, enroll sponsors and attendees into our vision of operator-based education to the larger networking community. The idea resonated and we've had 100-200 attendees at our events and sponsors such as Digital Reality, Juniper, Cisco, Netflix, and many others.
Open-IX pursues better standards for data center interconnection and Internet exchanges - Converge Digest
- Board member
- Board Advisory Services
- Thought Leadership
- Strategic Vision & Leadership
- Security policy
- Certification
https://convergedigest.com/open-ix-pursues-better-standards-for/As part of the Open-IX board of directors I helped developed ANSI accredited industry standards for data centers, peering exchanges, and edge data centers. One of my accomplishments here was bringing HIPAA compliance to the Open-IX OIX-1 certification
Veeam Innovation Awards 2023
- Innovation
- Product Strategy
- Product Innovation
- Product Engineer
- Information Security
- Data and Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
https://www.veeam.com/blog/innovation-awards-2023-excellence-in-tech.htmlAwarded Veeam Innovation award in 2023 for Ransomware prevention service utilizing AI/ML to detect suspicious activity within a backups environment, notify customer and security teams, and air-gap disaster recovery infrastructure
- Elasticsearch
- AWS ECS
- AWS EC2
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- replication
Opti9 Partners with Wasabi Technologies to Provide Clients with Disaster Recovery Capabilities and AI-Powered Ransomware Detection
- Product Management
- Technical Product Management
- Research
- Go to Market strategy
- Disaster recovery
- Backups
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/opti9-partners-wasabi-technologies-clients-182900094.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKGUYy-T5Y5j64zFaLIVCpq2WKflR7Vns7vsNTpm2nJsA2Yh5JyyInYz_mMcb_-JYNXpFWLt-ZML-AGcbQ41_qLF3OOoVyy747UZqNS0-wTT9vH2YDUPsh09sZMevrwXQg5dYd8nmhKprqdeKeokpTF2igooeeDStvMtsTCWrWBjOpti9 Technologies, LLC. (Opti9), a trusted North American managed cloud services provider, announces its selection by Wasabi Technologies (Wasabi) as a Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) to offer integrated disaster recovery and artificial intelligence (AI) powered ransomware detection services. As result of this trusted partnership, Wasabi clients can now natively integrate a comprehensive disaster recovery and security monitoring that includes proactive protection of their data from ransomware
- S3
- AWS ECS
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- VMware vSphere
- Azure Cloud Services
Anatomy of Ransomware Attack: Preventing Attacks on Your Backup Infrastructure - YouTube
- Go to Market strategy
- Product Engineer
- Product Strategy
- Thought Leadership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb3tcb1X9zQI brought in 3rd party whitehat hackers to vet the new Ransomware detection service I created. This webinar discusses the result of their findings, validation of the innovative product my team built, and interesting use-cases on the service.
- Node.js
- amazon aws
- MySQL
- Elasticsearch
- Veeam Backup & Replication
Ransomware Detection and Protection Services with Observr | Opti9
- Competitive Analysis
- Market Analysis
- Technical marketing
- Thought Leadership
- Sales eng
https://opti9tech.com/observr-ransomware-detection-and-protection/The resilience services (Backup & Disaster-Recovery) I developed were recognized by Gartner in there Magic Quadrant report for 6 years, which later turned into a Market Guide report. All-in-all, products I developed were featured in 25+ Gartner reports, as well as multiple IDC, 451group, and other analyst reports.
Experience
Cyviation
Technical Advisor
Jul 2023 - Present
Cyviation's proactive intelligence and monitoring solutions identify cyber threats for commercial airlines and private jets, focusing on aircraft communication vulnerabilities in the air and on the ground.
- 1st US based representative for this emerging cybersecurity platform specific to the Aviation industry
Opti9 Tech
CTO & CPO
Dec 2020 - Present
Opti9 is a global cloud company, delivering award winning cloud services for over 20 years to small, medium and enterprise level organizations who are inspired by a smarter way to develop and manage their technology strategy. We stand out from the competition by delivering services via three vital components – a vendor agnostic approach to ensure the best solution from vendors like AWS, FieldEffect, VMWare, and Veeam, our very own award-winning orchestration and management platform, and all delivered by our highly skilled team of architects, engineers and consultants.
- Launched AI/ML based Ransomware detection tool (Observr) to protect against emerging threat
- Built Disaster-Recovery service for CloudNative AWS workloads
- Received Veeam Innovation Award for Observr
- Launched Hybrid Cloud cloud managed platform
Webair
Co-Founder & CTO
Jan 2000 - Dec 2020
In 1998, Sagi co-founded Webair, an internet infrastructure company which would eventually become a leader in the complex hybrid cloud managed disaster-recovery niches. Sagi was responsible for all R&D, product development, technical marketing, and GTM. Additionally, he was responsible for all backend infrastructure, including scalable data center deployments, building a global IP transit network, automated customer provisioning portals, dynamic utilization accounts receivable software, DDoS monitoring & mitigation platforms, and multi-tenant cloud compute, storage, backups, and disaster recovery service offerings. His hands-on approach ensured he was at the epicenter of product development, maintaining feedback loops between customers, technical staff, sales leaders, SEs, and industry analysts, ensuring a short, streamlined, and highly relevant product development cycle. With Sagi’s help, Webair was eventually sold, and later merged with two other successful cloud and BCDR organizations, rebranding as Opti9. Sagi still leads technical innovation at Opti9 today, ensuring it remains at the forefront of innovation.
- Services included in Gartner Magic Quadrant & Marketplace reports
- Grew company from $0 to $30M+ ARR
- Built software suite to manage all company ops, including CRM, Dynamic Billing AR/AP, Customer portals, ticketing systems, workorder systems, IPAM, network automation, etc
- Scaled team from 0 to 50+ globally
- Built, managed, and scaled most redundant data center east of NYC with customers including multiple transatlantic fiber systems
- Deployed largest global Veeam based BCDR infrastructure at its time
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