# Shlomi Vaknin

> Shlomi Vaknin is a San Jose-based founding engineer and senior architect at DevRev Labs whose career spans defense software, enterprise language tools, big-data systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI. His recent work argues for AI agents grounded in connected business context and constrained by deterministic workflows, explicit permissions, and auditable records.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer and Senior Architect at DevRev Labs
- **Organizations:** DevRev, Nutanix, Intel, Ginger Software, Tadiran Electronic Systems, J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF
- **Education:** BSc, cum laude (grade listed as 94), The Open University of Israel
- **Known for:** More than 25 years of experience in software engineering and systems architecture., Early founding engineer at DevRev and current Senior Architect at DevRev Labs., Named inventor on granted U.S. patents covering public-cloud cluster bring-up and virtualization system images.

## Career timeline

- **2001-2005** — Software developer at the J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF.
- **2005-2012** — Software developer at Tadiran Electronic Systems.
- **2012-2014** — System architect, later senior system architect, at Ginger Software.
- **2014-2018** — Big Data Software Architect at Intel.
- **2018-2021** — Member of Technical Staff and later Staff Engineer in the CTO office at Nutanix.
- **2021-present** — Joined DevRev as an early founding engineer; currently described by DevRev as a Senior Architect at DevRev Labs.
- **2024** — A U.S. patent for expressed-intent public-cloud cluster bring-up was granted to Vaknin and co-inventor Binny Sher Gill.
- **2025** — Published an essay arguing that a knowledge graph supplies contextual memory for enterprise AI.
- **2026** — Published 'Powerless by design,' setting out a least-privilege architecture for enterprise AI agents.

## Achievements

- More than 25 years of experience in software engineering and systems architecture.
- Early founding engineer at DevRev and current Senior Architect at DevRev Labs.
- Named inventor on granted U.S. patents covering public-cloud cluster bring-up and virtualization system images.
- Named inventor on DevRev patent filings concerning product lifecycle management, support and work-item linkage, and hierarchical product parameters.
- Earned a BSc cum laude from The Open University of Israel, with a grade listed as 94 on his public profile.
- Completed Coursera certifications in Mining Massive Datasets and Functional Programming Principles in Scala.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Announced as a presenter with Adhithyakumar K.S for a DevRev live session on moving IT self-service from answering questions to resolving work.
- **2026-06** — Published 'Powerless by design,' an essay on constraining AI-agent authority in security-sensitive workflows.
- **2026-03** — A Nutanix patent on configuring virtualization system images for heterogeneous computing clusters was issued with Vaknin among the inventors.
- **2025-12** — Published an essay describing a knowledge graph as the contextual memory layer enterprise AI needs.

## Links

- Website: https://devrev.ai/people/shlomi
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shlomiv
- GitHub: https://github.com/shlomiv

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Last updated: 2026-09-28