Engineering Leaders AMA with Dirk de Kok (Director of Eng. @ Prenuvo) & Zehava Vardy (Engineering Director @ VMWare) - Leopard.FYI
Join us for the next part of our Engineering Leaders AMA Series where we speak to engineering leaders in our community about interview prep, job search strategies, hiring insights, and more!
About the Speakers:
Dirk de Kok - Director of Engineering @ Prenuvo
With 20+ years in software and 6+ years in technology leadership, Dirk thrives in scaling organizations and bridging the gap between startup agility and scaleup structure. Dirk is known for combining empathy with a strong bias for action as he builds high-performing teams for consumer-facing and SaaS products, including stints at Ford/Spin, OpenGov, and CrowdAI.
Ask Dirk about: Scaling engineering teams, founder-to-corporate transitions, evaluating and building healthy engineering cultures, and navigating hypergrowth challenges.
Zehava Vardy - Engineering Director @ VMWare
With 15+ years in engineering leadership and platform innovation, Zehava excels at driving complex cloud transformations and scaling global teams across startups and large enterprises. Currently serving as Engineering Director for VMware's Tanzu Mission Control, she has led the development of cutting-edge Kubernetes SaaS platforms that enable multi-cloud cluster management across TKG, EKS, and AKS—contributing to VMware's SaaS growth from $500M to $3B.
Ask Zehava about: Scaling engineering teams through hypergrowth, multi-cloud platform strategy, Kubernetes at enterprise scale, building high-performing global teams, and driving technical transformation in large organizations.
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