Ray Felix

CEO

Vancouver, Washington, United States29 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Rubrik's growth to over 6,000 customers.
Pioneered Zero Trust Data Management strategies.
Successfully guided Rubrik through IPO in 2024.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Infrastructure expert with a focus on Data Security.

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Big DataCisco TechnologiesCisco UCSCloud ComputingCross-functional Team LeadershipData CenterDisaster RecoveryEnterprise ArchitectureEnterprise SoftwareHardwareHigh AvailabilityIaaSInfrastructureIntegrationNetworking

About

Proven Leader in Zero Trust Data Security | Builder of High-Performing Teams | Startup & IT Industry Veteran As Rubrik’s 28th employee and first Sales Engineer, I was front and center with our inaugural customer in 2015—and have since helped scale the company to over 6,000 customers and through a successful IPO in 2024. Today, I lead the Technical Product Management, Competitive Intelligence, and Technical Alliances teams, driving Rubrik’s innovation strategy and market leadership in Zero Trust Data Management.

Experience

Rubrik

6 roles

Area VP: Technical Product, Alliances, and Competitive Research

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

I lead a dynamic team consisting of Technical Product Managers, Alliance Solution Engineers, and Competitive Research Analysts focused on product research and development, in-depth competitive analysis, and comprehensive solutions architecture for strategic alliances. Our organization plays a crucial role in developing innovative, differentiated products that consistently exceed customer expectations. Additionally, we serve as the technical cornerstone of the Alliances team, guiding the design and certification of integrated product solutions.

Area VP: Technical Product Management

Promoted

Nov 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Technical Product Management leader. I lead a team of Technical Product Managers that bridge the gap between Product & Sales, exploring 3rd party integrations, new use cases, pending releases, and building solutions for customers.

Area Vice President of Sales Engineering (West Enterprise)

Mar 2022 – Oct 2022 · 7 mos

Sales Engineering VP for Rubrik, Inc. I manage a team of SE leaders responsible for recruiting and enabling some of the best sales engineers in the business.

Director of Sales Engineering (West Enterprise)

Promoted

Mar 2018 – Mar 2022 · 4 yrs

Sales Engineering Director for Rubrik, Inc. I manage a team of SE leaders responsible for recruiting and enabling some of the best sales engineers in the business.

Sales Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

Sales Engineering Manager for Rubrik, Inc. My team of SEs and I leverage decades of hands-on IT experience, which we use to design and implement BC/DR architectures for our customers.

Sales Engineer

Apr 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

As a Sales Engineer for Silicon Valley's hottest startup, I analyze infrastructure, make architectural recommendations, and help customers understand their options for data protection. I leverage 20 years of blue collar IT experience in my analyses and show customers how to simplify their data centers.

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Director, Cloud Infrastructure Architecture

Apr 2012 – Apr 2015 · 3 yrs · Newark, CA

Director and Principal Architect of the Cloud Infrastructure Architecture team, responsible for the design, implementation, and documentation of all new technology deployments and infrastructure enhancements.

Cadence design systems, inc.

Virtualization Lead & Sr. Staff Program Analyst

Sep 1998 – Aug 2012 · 13 yrs 11 mos · San Jose, CA

My responsibilities included:
1. Researching and implementing new technologies for the enterprise
2. Collaborating with IT Management and Product Development to gather requirements and provide technical leadership on all virtual infrastructure deployments, including IaaS and PaaS hosted environments
3. Partnering with vendors to evaluate new technologies, conduct proof of concept testing, negotiate pricing , and forecast budget
4. Documenting infrastructure and cross-training fellow Infrastructure Operations and Help Desk teammates in order to improve responsiveness and reduce service outages
5. Integration services for new infrastructure purchases, including (but not limited to) memory, CPU, hard drive, and expansion card installation
6. Large scale OS deployment for bulk infrastructure rollouts (Solaris, Red Hat, Windows, AIX, HPUX, SuSE)
7. Documenting gold hardware configurations in order to optimize infrastructure for Cadence EDA applications
8. Benchmarking potential system purchases against Cadence software suite to aid in the selection of infrastructure for the enterprise
9. Rollout and maintenance of global asset management program, responsible for cataloguing the specifications and location of over 30,000 hardware assets
10. Providing 24/7 support of infrastructure across multiple data centers in US and abroad
11. Establishing hardware standards for server, laptop, and mobile platforms across enterprise based on benchmark testing and proof of concept evaluations
Some of the environments I had the pleasure of helping to design and/or support included:
1. IaaS service offering for hosted clients
2. Global virtual infrastructure that helped reduce the company's hardware footprint by over 30%
3. Training environments that enabled customer training on a variety of EDA products in several cities across the US

United states marine corps

I-Class Aviation Electronics Technician (AT)

Feb 1995 – Sep 1997 · 2 yrs 7 mos

I-Level aviation electronics technician for the United States Marine Corps at MCAS Yuma, diagnosing hardware and software issues for a mobile weather unit that provided on-site weather monitoring for mobile flight lines.
My responsibilities included:
1. Providing 24/7 Tier 1-3 support of mobile weather data center infrastructure
2. Deployment of all new technologies in the mobile weather data center
3. Supporting telephony, mobile devices, satellite tracking technology, and various weather gear on a mobile flight line, troubleshooting down to the individual component on a motherboard and replacing that component in the field
My achievements included:
1. Graduated at the top of my class from NAS Millington in Aviation Electronics Technician (AT) course
2. Member of team that completed two successful mobile exercises, demonstrating the combat readiness of our mobile weather services in the deserts of Arizona