Reza Shafii

Reza Shafii leads product at Kong, drawing on a career in infrastructure software, middleware and cloud platforms. His earlier work includes product leadership at MuleSoft, CoreOS and Red Hat, and he writes about bringing open-source products into cloud and product-led growth models.

Career

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Kong

Sep 2019 — Present

Senior Vice President, Product

Invictus Growth Partners

Mar 2026 — Present

Invictus Guild Member (Part-time Advisor)

Red Hat

Feb 2018 — Sep 2019

Vice President, Platform Services, Community and Partnerships — OpenShift

CoreOS

Mar 2016 — Feb 2018

Vice President of Products

MuleSoft

Mar 2012 — Feb 2016

Senior Director of Product Management

Oracle

Apr 2008 — Mar 2012

Group Product Manager — Java Cloud Service, PaaS and Coherence

BEA Systems

May 2004 — Apr 2008

Senior Principal Consultant and Staff Engineer

Fujitsu

Sep 2002 — May 2004

Senior Architect, Consulting

Nortel Networks

Jun 1998 — Aug 2002

Software Developer

University of California - Berkeley

University of Ottawa

MBA

University of British Columbia

Bachelor's studies in software

Products & media

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Product-led growth from an open-source perspective

Reza offers four lessons for open-source and sales-led businesses: compatible product interfaces, a cloud foundation for experimentation, a useful free tier and product-qualified sales motions.

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Reza Shafii

Kong

Invictus Growth Partners

Red Hat

CoreOS

MuleSoft

Oracle

BEA Systems

Fujitsu

Nortel Networks

University of California - Berkeley

University of Ottawa

University of British Columbia

Products & media

Product-led growth from an open-source perspective

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