Dan Ganon
Senior Director of Platform and SRE
Innovative, Empathetic Leader Driving Operational Excellence
Dan Ganon
| Senior Director of Platform and SRE
Innovative, Empathetic Leader Driving Operational Excellence
Specialties
- Tech Vision & Strategic Planning
- Process oriented
- Mission-Critical /”Always-On” mindset
- Production Operations Expertise
- Large scale web-Applications
- Budget Control and Planning
- Scaling Engineering teams
- Data-Driven
Vision
- Innovate
- Collaborate
- Elevate: Delivering Impactful
- Customer-Centric Technology Every Step of the Way
Values
- Collaboration
- Empowerment
- Can Do Approach
- Professionalism
My Career story
As an executive leader and an 8200 alumnus, I have expertise in all product and
platform development phases, having served as a senior member of R&D
organizations. I am an innovative professional who can create and implement strategic
plans, processes, and initiatives that enhance operational objectives and boost
efficiency. My track record shows my commitment to overall product reliability, as I
have consistently led teams through software development, ensuring top quality at
every step.
My Leadership values in a nutshell :
Empowering my team helps individuals become their best version
Collaboration is a way of life for creating genuine organizational value and
amplifying strength, bridging R&D, production, and infrastructure.
A hands-on, can-do approach enables high execution capability.
professionalism enables me to provide significant value to R&D teams
Work Experience
2023 - 2024
Senior Director, Platform & Reliability, Etoro Ltd
- Oversaw Production and IT/Cloud Operations, SRE, and FinOps, ensuring
robust and efficient platform infrastructure. - Prioritized platform reliability and exceptional user experience within the
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) domain. - Improved developer experience by forming a dev-ex infra team focused
on AI-driven tools, resolving bottlenecks, fostering agility, and
implementing KPI-driven DevOps practices, resulting in a 30% increase
in R&D productivity. - Implemented Management. Developed protocols, change management
processes, and standards for production management, including incident
management strategy and escalation protocols. - Established a new massive offshore operations center, migrating it from
Israel to a remote location. This included managing the budget, recruiting,
and handling purchase processes with local vendors. - Established Comprehensive Observability and Monitoring Strategy.
Implemented a 360-degree self-service observability platform for R&D
teams. - Pioneered a “shift left” mindset across the engineering organization,
revolutionizing the SDLC by integrating business KPI monitoring early in
the development process - Supervised the management and optimization of cloud operation costs
(FinOps), delivering cost-effective solutions without compromising
performance and reliability. Aligned financial management with
technologicalobjectives and business goals. - Provided executive sponsorship and led the strategic technical roadmap of
the organization, ensuring alignment and execution across multiple teams
through effective leadership and influence.
2021 - 2023
Senior Director, Platform Quality
- Expanded departmental responsibilities by establishing an advanced tier
of reliability within the operations center, significantly improving overall
stability and MTTR. - Initiated the groundwork for SRE within the organization, combining this
strategy with the development life cycle to ensure comprehensive
oversight of development and production reliability at early stages. - Managed directly 3 senior managers and provided overall leadership to
100 engineers and mid-level management.
2017 - 2018
Automation Development Group Manager
- Led eight engineers on three cross-functional development teams while initiating various automation
and quality assurance projects: delivered and integrated automation coding and CI standards. - Reduced testing time by 50% by actively developing the core back-end infrastructure for automation.
- Developed and managed beta testing programs for a new Blockchain product, achieving Key
Performance Indicators (KPI) before market launch. - Developed testing processes for both regular and epic user stories, based on Product Requirement
Documents (PRDs) and business-driven metrics.
o At the end of 2018, I was promoted to Quality Director
2015 - 2017
Head of Engineering Department, UNIT 8200 (ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES)
- Developed a real-time, web-based monitoring product; formulated a tactical roadmap and set
requirements and KPIs in collaboration with engineers, production managers, and inbound
stakeholders. - Achieved a 900% increase in registered users in the product group, gaining 450 new members.
- Reduced the Mean-Time-to-Repair (MTTR) for real-time production systems by 20%.
What Motivates me?
Transformative Innovation
A character that I draw inspiration from
Simon Sinek
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