Director of AI and Data Architecture

• Feb 2022 - Present

Leading the AI architecture of Playtika's ML Platform. The Platform is powering the numerous and diverse AI products in the company; serving Playtika’s game studios, Marketing department and more. Establishing MLOps, and recently LLMOps, architecture and culture spanning MLEs, Data Scientists and Software engineers. Involved in POCs and market research, mentoring and advocating. Working closely with various stakeholders across the company to execute and evangelize the platform. Leading the AI architecture of Playtika's ML Platform. The Platform is powering the numerous and diverse AI products in the company; serving Playtika’s game studios, Marketing department and more. Establishing MLOps, and recently LLMOps, architecture and culture spanning MLEs, Data Scientists and Software engineers. Involved in POCs and market research, mentoring and advocating. Working closely with various stakeholders across the company to execute and evangelize the platform.

Data Analytics Solution Lead and Data Architect at Google Cloud

• Feb 2020 - Feb 2022

I lead the global Data Lake modernization practice as a solution lead in addition to other data analytics initiatives across global GCP teams (Eng, Product, Strategy).

Big Data Specialist and Data Architect at Google Cloud

• Jan 2019 - Feb 2022

I serve as Big Data Architect and senior SME in Google cloud, helping both cloud native and on-prem customers to architect and modernize their data and analytics workloads on top of Google Cloud.I am mastering Google BigQuery, Dataproc, Bigtable and the entire data and AI stack.In addition deeply involved in advocating and presenting deep dive sessions in various conferences.

Cloud Platform Customer Engineer

• Dec 2017 - Dec 2018

Lead Big Data Architect

• Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

Leading the design, POCs, architecture and implementation of a near real-time Analytical platform deployed on AWS and DCOS (Mesos). I also served as the manager of a data engineers team. The project is built from the ground up based on Druid, Kafka, Cassandra and Spark. In this role, I specialized in Druid using a Lambda based architecture to cope with the various workloads. Leading the design, POCs, architecture and implementation of a near real-time Analytical platform deployed on AWS and DCOS (Mesos). I also served as the manager of a data engineers team. The project is built from the ground up based on Druid, Kafka, Cassandra and Spark. In this role, I specialized in Druid using a Lambda based architecture to cope with the various workloads.

Database Expert and Data Architect: Vertica, Oracle, SQL Server, MySql, Postgresql, Cassandra

• Oct 2004 - Dec 2016

Leading and designing database solutions within HP Software products, mainly SaaS Big Data products and Data Warehouse. Since 2013 I have been working on a suite of SaaS multi-tenant APM products (AppPulse) based on HP Vertica. In my role I am involved in all data aspects of the architecture and functional phases, leading the research, design and implementation of the solution in R&D from the ground up. At 2010 I became HP Expert in my field. I also held positions of Scrum Master and was part of an Architecture Forum. At 2015 I was promoted to the position of HP Master. Show less

DBA Oracle, SQL Server

• 2004 - 2006

I was the primary DBA (Oracle and SQL Server) in Mercury (now HP) RTSM/UCMDB project. I was involved in the design and implementation of databases solutions: Topological database, OLTP and Data Warehouse. I was the primary DBA (Oracle and SQL Server) in Mercury (now HP) RTSM/UCMDB project. I was involved in the design and implementation of databases solutions: Topological database, OLTP and Data Warehouse.

Oracle DBA

• 2000 - 2004

I lead the database team of VocalTec’s Gatekeeper server. Within this project I was involved in deploying and supporting a big Oracle multi master replication hosted at a big European Telco company. I lead the database team of VocalTec’s Gatekeeper server. Within this project I was involved in deploying and supporting a big Oracle multi master replication hosted at a big European Telco company.

Oracle developer

• 1998 - 2000