Chen Harel 
About Me
20+ years of experience leading, building, and scaling B2B SaaS products, platforms, and developer tools.
Highlights
- Scaled Coralogix - a full-stack observability & security platform, increasing revenue by 10x in 3 years.
- Founded OverOps – an engineering productivity platform, reaching $5M+ ARR and acquired by Harness.
- Launched AutoCAD – Autodesk flagship web and mobile app, reaching 10M+ mobile downloads.
Experience
VP Product | Coralogix (2023 – Present)
- Boosted revenue and market reach by unifying cross-functional teams behind a strategic product vision.
- Led 20 product managers, designers, and technical writers while leveraging 150+ engineers.
- Partnered with IBM to whitelabel Coralogix as IBM Cloud Logs, generating $10M+ ARR.
- Launched Cora, the Coralogix AI Assistant, bringing advanced GenAI to the observability market.
VP Solutions & Field CTO | Coralogix (2021 – 2023)
- Led the sales engineering teams in the Americas, closing multiple $1M+ ARR deals in the first year.
- Revamped and simplified a value-driven POC process, resulting in 90%+ technical wins.
- Orchestrated a new microservices demo environment, raising demo conversions by 50%.
VP Product | UP9 (2020 – 2021)
- Orchestrated UP9 public beta in under 3 months, signing first customers with $30K ARR bookings.
- Defined product vision, strategy, and roadmap which improved engineering velocity by 40%.
- Simplified product pricing and introduced a freemium model resulting in 50% increase in signups.
Co-Founder & VP Product | OverOps (2016 – 2020)
- Built the Product org, hired and managed 3 PMs and achieved 200% revenue growth in the first year.
- Analyzed product usage and improved the self-serve onboarding funnel by 20% in 6 weeks.
- Shipped a new enterprise offering with enhanced security features, cutting down POC time by 66%.
- Evolved the platform to offer hybrid-cloud and full on-premises support, closing 4 strategic accounts.
Co-Founder & Head of Platform | OverOps (2011 – 2016)
- Managed 3 multi-disciplinary engineering teams including QA, Automation, Backend, and DevOps.
- Spearheaded growth hacking campaigns, increasing lead generation by 25%.
- Optimized operational spend, reducing cloud costs by 35% for production and 50% for development.
Engineering Roles | Autodesk, Amdocs, and IDF (2003 – 2011)
- Led development of flagship products and optimized large-scale systems.
Skills
Product Strategy · Onboarding · Customer-oriented · Prototyping · Leadership · Market Research · User Experience · Agile · Mentoring · Java · Python · AI · Bash · DevOps · SQL · ML · Jira · Git · Figma · AWS
Personal life
❤️ Husband | 👶👶🐶 Dad | 🏋️ Weightlifting | 🎹 Piano playing | 🎲 Boardgames
Contact
Feel free to reach out to discuss product leadership, B2B platforms, or developer tools!
chook DOT harel AT gmail DOT com