Summary
Vladimir Popovski is a seasoned cloud infrastructure and services leader with 14+ years driving high-performance, secure cloud platforms from engineering roles to executive leadership. As Chief Services Officer at Zadara and an early co-founder and VP of Cloud Operations, he has shepherded product, support, and global operations to scale commercial storage and cloud offerings. His background as a distinguished/principal engineer at LSI and early work leading intelligent switch platforms reflect deep systems, storage, and networking expertise that informs strategic decisions today. Based in Irvine, CA, he blends hands-on technical fluency with customer-facing service design, ensuring reliability for enterprise workloads. Notably, he pairs an MSc in Computer Science/Applied Mathematics with a career arc that moved from low-level engineering to running services at scale, giving him rare end-to-end perspective. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who turns complex infrastructure challenges into operationally sound, secure solutions.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science / Applied Mathematics, MSc Computer Science / Applied Mathematics at Universitatea de Stat din Moldova
Mathematics & Informatics, Mathematics & Informatics at Liceul D. Cantemir