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Dor Laor

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CEO, co-founder at ScyllaDB
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Dor Laor is the CEO and co-founder of ScyllaDB, a high-performance NoSQL database company. A graduate of the Technion, he has a strong background in virtualization, having been part of the founding team for the KVM hypervisor. People who have worked with him describe him as having excellent technical, management, and leadership skills.

Outside of his deep technical work, Dor is passionate about outdoor sports. He is an avid mountain biker and snowboarder, even humorously listing a "Phd in snowboarding" in his background. He often combines his professional and personal interests, suggesting meetings to discuss both technology and mountain biking at conferences.

Unique fact: Dor was a core creator of the KVM hypervisor, the virtualization solution now built into the Linux kernel and used by cloud providers globally.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
CEO, co-founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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High-Performance Databases
As CEO of ScyllaDB, he is focused on building NoSQL databases that deliver extremely high throughput and low latency, rivaling the performance of in-memory caches.
Kernel Virtualization
He was a founding member of the team that created KVM, the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine, and managed KVM development for years at Red Hat.
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Career

Work history

12-2012
CEO, co-founder
ScyllaDB
9-2012 - 11-2012
Director of platform virtualization
Red Hat
8-2008 - 9-2012
Senior manager, Kernel Virtual Machine
Red Hat
8-2005 - 10-2008
group manager
Qumranet technologies
1-2004 - 10-2005
Entrepreneur
VitruVius Software
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Education
1998 - 2000
Master
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
1995 - 2000
B.Sc
Technin institute
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