Experience

Speedata.io

• Israel
• Semiconductors
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Product Manager

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  Dramatic hardware acceleration for analytics workloads Dramatic hardware acceleration for analytics workloads


Microsoft
• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee
• Senior Program Manager

  • Aug 2019 - Sep 2023


Equalum

• Spain
• Construction

• CTO, Product, Co-founder

  • May 2015 - Jan 2019

  Co-founded Equalum to bring real-time streaming ETL to the enterprise. Defined the core architecture of our product, including the right mix of open source technologies to leverage, and how to coherently use them together. Researched and designed most of the Change Data Capture algorithms and exactly-once data processing algorithms to deliver a peformant and reliable solution. Developed the Equalum CLI in Python and wrote the initial product documentation. After the first year… Show more Co-founded Equalum to bring real-time streaming ETL to the enterprise. Defined the core architecture of our product, including the right mix of open source technologies to leverage, and how to coherently use them together. Researched and designed most of the Change Data Capture algorithms and exactly-once data processing algorithms to deliver a peformant and reliable solution. Developed the Equalum CLI in Python and wrote the initial product documentation. After the first year, moved to spending a significant portion of my time in a product management role - from writing all feature specs to product testing. Executed technical POCs onsite at potential customers. Invented and filed patents. Show less Co-founded Equalum to bring real-time streaming ETL to the enterprise. Defined the core architecture of our product, including the right mix of open source technologies to leverage, and how to coherently use them together. Researched and designed most of the Change Data Capture algorithms and exactly-once data processing algorithms to deliver a peformant and reliable solution. Developed the Equalum CLI in Python and wrote the initial product documentation. After the first year… Show more Co-founded Equalum to bring real-time streaming ETL to the enterprise. Defined the core architecture of our product, including the right mix of open source technologies to leverage, and how to coherently use them together. Researched and designed most of the Change Data Capture algorithms and exactly-once data processing algorithms to deliver a peformant and reliable solution. Developed the Equalum CLI in Python and wrote the initial product documentation. After the first year, moved to spending a significant portion of my time in a product management role - from writing all feature specs to product testing. Executed technical POCs onsite at potential customers. Invented and filed patents. Show less



Jethrodata

• Product Manager

  • Jan 2014 - May 2015

  Was hired as the first product manager of the company, and led product management from an early alpha phase to general availability. Leveraged my database and big data background to zero-in on the relevant MVP functionality and focus the all the stakeholders around it. Worked closely with the R&D team, from communicating feature specs to product testing. Contributed to the engineering design process regarding the product implementation trade-offs. Analyzed the competitive and… Show more Was hired as the first product manager of the company, and led product management from an early alpha phase to general availability. Leveraged my database and big data background to zero-in on the relevant MVP functionality and focus the all the stakeholders around it. Worked closely with the R&D team, from communicating feature specs to product testing. Contributed to the engineering design process regarding the product implementation trade-offs. Analyzed the competitive and ecosystem landscape, and prototyped ecosystem integrations, such as Kerberos. Wrote the product documentation and technical marketing collateral. Show less Was hired as the first product manager of the company, and led product management from an early alpha phase to general availability. Leveraged my database and big data background to zero-in on the relevant MVP functionality and focus the all the stakeholders around it. Worked closely with the R&D team, from communicating feature specs to product testing. Contributed to the engineering design process regarding the product implementation trade-offs. Analyzed the competitive and… Show more Was hired as the first product manager of the company, and led product management from an early alpha phase to general availability. Leveraged my database and big data background to zero-in on the relevant MVP functionality and focus the all the stakeholders around it. Worked closely with the R&D team, from communicating feature specs to product testing. Contributed to the engineering design process regarding the product implementation trade-offs. Analyzed the competitive and ecosystem landscape, and prototyped ecosystem integrations, such as Kerberos. Wrote the product documentation and technical marketing collateral. Show less



Self-Employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Big Data Consultant

  • Oct 2013 - Mar 2014

  Independent consulting on Big Data / Hadoop / Databases. Delivering Hadoop training (with Doctor Uzy Hadad) to various organizations, including RSA, eBay Israel etc. Independent consulting on Big Data / Hadoop / Databases. Delivering Hadoop training (with Doctor Uzy Hadad) to various organizations, including RSA, eBay Israel etc.



Gene by Gene

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager and Architect

  • Apr 2013 - Oct 2013

  Started in a spinoff in Israel - a joint venture of Gene by Gene and Elbit. Built a high-quality prototype of end-to-end genomic (NGS) pipeline that is being used to analyze clinical cases. I leveraged a lot of open-source components and also designed and wrote some of my own - for example, genomic pipeline quality evaluation and easier results analysis. For five months I was the entire engineering and product team - working closely with my biology-PHD counterpart, doing quick… Show more Started in a spinoff in Israel - a joint venture of Gene by Gene and Elbit. Built a high-quality prototype of end-to-end genomic (NGS) pipeline that is being used to analyze clinical cases. I leveraged a lot of open-source components and also designed and wrote some of my own - for example, genomic pipeline quality evaluation and easier results analysis. For five months I was the entire engineering and product team - working closely with my biology-PHD counterpart, doing quick iterations of tests and analysis to optimize accuracy, relevancy and usefulness, based on real patients cases. Later moved directly to Gene by Gene team, working with the Engineering, Medical and Clinical team to improve the NGS offering and infrastructure. Show less Started in a spinoff in Israel - a joint venture of Gene by Gene and Elbit. Built a high-quality prototype of end-to-end genomic (NGS) pipeline that is being used to analyze clinical cases. I leveraged a lot of open-source components and also designed and wrote some of my own - for example, genomic pipeline quality evaluation and easier results analysis. For five months I was the entire engineering and product team - working closely with my biology-PHD counterpart, doing quick… Show more Started in a spinoff in Israel - a joint venture of Gene by Gene and Elbit. Built a high-quality prototype of end-to-end genomic (NGS) pipeline that is being used to analyze clinical cases. I leveraged a lot of open-source components and also designed and wrote some of my own - for example, genomic pipeline quality evaluation and easier results analysis. For five months I was the entire engineering and product team - working closely with my biology-PHD counterpart, doing quick iterations of tests and analysis to optimize accuracy, relevancy and usefulness, based on real patients cases. Later moved directly to Gene by Gene team, working with the Engineering, Medical and Clinical team to improve the NGS offering and infrastructure. Show less



EMC

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Pre Sales Technical Architect, Greenplum

  • Aug 2011 - Mar 2013

  Leading all Greenplum pre-sales activity in Israel, handling both Greenplum Database and Greenplum Hadoop offerings. Role includes working on potential Big Data opportunities with prospects, architecting a solution to meet customer requirements, designing and executing competitive Proof-Of-Concepts etc. In addition, delivered the four-day "Greenplum Architecture, Administration and Implementation" training course to customers and partners in 2012 (with Franck Sidi), and writing in EMC… Show more Leading all Greenplum pre-sales activity in Israel, handling both Greenplum Database and Greenplum Hadoop offerings. Role includes working on potential Big Data opportunities with prospects, architecting a solution to meet customer requirements, designing and executing competitive Proof-Of-Concepts etc. In addition, delivered the four-day "Greenplum Architecture, Administration and Implementation" training course to customers and partners in 2012 (with Franck Sidi), and writing in EMC Israel blog Show less Leading all Greenplum pre-sales activity in Israel, handling both Greenplum Database and Greenplum Hadoop offerings. Role includes working on potential Big Data opportunities with prospects, architecting a solution to meet customer requirements, designing and executing competitive Proof-Of-Concepts etc. In addition, delivered the four-day "Greenplum Architecture, Administration and Implementation" training course to customers and partners in 2012 (with Franck Sidi), and writing in EMC… Show more Leading all Greenplum pre-sales activity in Israel, handling both Greenplum Database and Greenplum Hadoop offerings. Role includes working on potential Big Data opportunities with prospects, architecting a solution to meet customer requirements, designing and executing competitive Proof-Of-Concepts etc. In addition, delivered the four-day "Greenplum Architecture, Administration and Implementation" training course to customers and partners in 2012 (with Franck Sidi), and writing in EMC Israel blog Show less



Oracle

• United States
• Warehousing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technology Specialist

  • Mar 2005 - Aug 2011

  Handled all pre-sales activities for Oracle Israel enterprise database customers. Focused on presenting, designing, implementing and tuning of Oracle database technologies. Main specialization in everything related to Oracle database - design for OLTP and DW, performance tuning, all HA features (especially RAC and Data Guard), all new features, Text analytics, installation, trouble shooting, ASM and clusterware, servers O/S and storage considerations, Enterprise Manager, tools etc In… Show more Handled all pre-sales activities for Oracle Israel enterprise database customers. Focused on presenting, designing, implementing and tuning of Oracle database technologies. Main specialization in everything related to Oracle database - design for OLTP and DW, performance tuning, all HA features (especially RAC and Data Guard), all new features, Text analytics, installation, trouble shooting, ASM and clusterware, servers O/S and storage considerations, Enterprise Manager, tools etc In addition, specializing in two other products: - TimesTen: Oracle in-memory database for real time OLTP. Presented it in the demo ground of Oracle World 2007 in San Francisco with product management and engineering. - Exadata: evangalized Exadata in Israel since end of 2008. Led Exadata implementation design at Depei Zahav in 2010 and Bezeq in 2011. Designed and ran Multiple Exadata POCs at Reading, UK leading to sale of five machines to two customers. Delivered the three-day training "Exadata and Database Machine Administration Workshop" to Oracle employees, partners and customers in 2011. Beyond that: - Worked closely with Oracle Product Managers on product feedback, participated twice in Oracle's internal ST Partnership event. - Wrote dozens of blog posts in Oracle Israel technical blog (in Hebrew) - Delivered hundreds of customer presentations in events and one-on-one customer meetings Show less Handled all pre-sales activities for Oracle Israel enterprise database customers. Focused on presenting, designing, implementing and tuning of Oracle database technologies. Main specialization in everything related to Oracle database - design for OLTP and DW, performance tuning, all HA features (especially RAC and Data Guard), all new features, Text analytics, installation, trouble shooting, ASM and clusterware, servers O/S and storage considerations, Enterprise Manager, tools etc In… Show more Handled all pre-sales activities for Oracle Israel enterprise database customers. Focused on presenting, designing, implementing and tuning of Oracle database technologies. Main specialization in everything related to Oracle database - design for OLTP and DW, performance tuning, all HA features (especially RAC and Data Guard), all new features, Text analytics, installation, trouble shooting, ASM and clusterware, servers O/S and storage considerations, Enterprise Manager, tools etc In addition, specializing in two other products: - TimesTen: Oracle in-memory database for real time OLTP. Presented it in the demo ground of Oracle World 2007 in San Francisco with product management and engineering. - Exadata: evangalized Exadata in Israel since end of 2008. Led Exadata implementation design at Depei Zahav in 2010 and Bezeq in 2011. Designed and ran Multiple Exadata POCs at Reading, UK leading to sale of five machines to two customers. Delivered the three-day training "Exadata and Database Machine Administration Workshop" to Oracle employees, partners and customers in 2011. Beyond that: - Worked closely with Oracle Product Managers on product feedback, participated twice in Oracle's internal ST Partnership event. - Wrote dozens of blog posts in Oracle Israel technical blog (in Hebrew) - Delivered hundreds of customer presentations in events and one-on-one customer meetings Show less



SintecMedia

• Israel
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Database Administrator

  • Dec 2003 - Feb 2005

  Worked as an Oracle 9i application DBA - the only DBA in the company. Supported dozens of developers building OnAir - a complex OLTP system for managing all aspects of TV broadcast. Focused on enhancing the product performance, scalability and stability. Educated the development teams on how to leverage database functionality and DB/SQL best practices. Worked with large customers world-wide Worked as an Oracle 9i application DBA - the only DBA in the company. Supported dozens of developers building OnAir - a complex OLTP system for managing all aspects of TV broadcast. Focused on enhancing the product performance, scalability and stability. Educated the development teams on how to leverage database functionality and DB/SQL best practices. Worked with large customers world-wide



IDF

• Israel
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Various Positions

  • Jul 1994 - Jan 2001

  After a six month computer programming course at Mamram, started as a Natural/Adabas developer and Informix DBA. After officer's training in 1998, moved to managing a a dev team of eight developers, and finally moved to an Oracle DBA role. After a six month computer programming course at Mamram, started as a Natural/Adabas developer and Informix DBA. After officer's training in 1998, moved to managing a a dev team of eight developers, and finally moved to an Oracle DBA role.