Cem Yildirim

Cem Yildirim has a long and varied career in the technology industry. Cem began their career in 1994 as a HW Development Manager at Onstream Networks. Cem then moved to 3Com in 1996, where they were a HW Development Manager. In 1998, they became a Sr. Engineering Manager at Transmedia Communications, where they designed a high density, carrier class VoIP Gateway. In 1999, they joined Cisco as a Sr. Engineering Manager, where they were responsible for the SW Development, Quality Assurance and PMO for a high capacity multi-service product and HW development for Media Gateway. In 2006, they transitioned to Cisco Systems as a Product Marketing Manager (PLM). In 2008, they returned to Cisco as Director, Engineering, where they managed globally distributed teams and was a member of the Cisco Customer Experience Board. In 2015, they joined Juniper Networks as Strategic Delivery Director, leading the Worldwide Customer Certification Labs. In 2017, they founded and became COO/CTO of BigZpoon, a B2B SaaS company providing online menu management, marketing, sales, food ordering, delivery, and CRM solutions to restaurants.

Cem Yildirim has an MS EE in Comp Electr. & Digital Signal Processing from the Naval Postgraduate School.