Ronen Goldsmith

Experience

1. Principal Sw Engineering Manager

   Microsoft

   Jun 2022 — Present · Herzliyya, IL

   Currently leading the Global Secure Access (GSA) Windows client team through rapid scale and technical evolution. Driving the growth of the product from an early-stage solution to a widely deployed secure access platform. Responsible for live site operations, large-scale deployments, security integrations, and performance optimization, while fostering engineering excellence and cross-team collaboration.Key Achievements:Driving security and resilience by integrating advanced security features and addressing complex vulnerabilities in alignment with industry standards (e.g, Zero Trust, secure connectivity).Scaled the GSA client from a few manual installs to hundreds of thousands of user deployments on Windows devices, enabling enterprise customers to use it in production environments with high reliability, performance at scale, and a seamless user experienceOwning live site operations, leading incident triage, stability improvements, and resilience in production environments.Collaborating across organizations with product, field, and partner teams to align on roadmap delivery and customer needs.Fostering engineering excellence through innovation, continuous delivery, and a strong quality-first culture.Optimizing operational processes by evolving release pipelines, improving validation frameworks, and supporting secure delivery at scale.Technologies & Focus Areas:C++, Windows internals, endpoint security, secure tunneling, MDM integration, cross-platform client architecture, telemetry, live site monitoring, incident response, secure deployment pipelines, engineering management, global collaboration.

Education

• The Jerusalem College of Technology

  Engineer's Degree

  2008 — 2012

• Tel Aviv University

  Executive MBA

  2021 — 2023

Skills

• Angularjs
• Agile Methodologies
• Spring
• Object Oriented Design
• Javascript
• Web Services
• Spring Mvc
• Html
• Software Design
• Software Development
• Soa
• Scrum
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Perl
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Cloud Computing
• C#
• Oop
• Software Engineering
• Integration
• Sql
• C++
• Automated Software Testing
• Linux
• Hibernate
• Xml
• Rest
• Java