Experience

PLAYSTUDIOS ISRAEL

• Israel
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Solutions Architect

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  Returned to a hands-on engineering lead role in order to move DevOps projects forward.Additionally, I act as a mentor to various technical teams.Projects include:• Planning migration to Kubernetes and implementing PoC's• Continuing troubleshooting and guidance for the DevOps Team for the Kubernetes migration• Design, Implement, and maintain Python- and LUA-based serverless frameworks in AWS• Escalation point for production issues• Requesting and implementing RIPE IP Allocations for our WAN (BGP Routing, etc) Show less

• Senior DevOps / TechOps Team Leader

  • Dec 2014 - Jun 2019

  Returned to Shaker to lead the TechOps Team through a period of significant growth and subsequent acquisition by PlayStudios. I enjoy leading a team of DevOps professionals responsible for all production aspects of a Top-20 Grossing iPhone and Android app (in our iOS App Store category). Our team's responsibilities include: • Architecting, Supporting, and Improving the CI/CD process • Providing tools for developers to deploy their own code to production after vigorous testing • Working with developers to ensure that code deployed to production is scalable, secure, and reliable • Monitoring all aspects of Production environments • Finding innovative solutions towards improving production performance and resilience • Automating everything • Assuring security • Supporting the BI/Data Analytics team with infrastructure and suggesting design improvementsAdditionally, my team supports the office IT infrastructure including networking, security, servers, power, and all office computing requirements. • Networking: Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, Aruba/HPE, Ubiquiti and Vyatta. • Docker + Kubernetes (Tectonic and CoreOS) • Dell, HPE and whitebox servers • AWS VPC's, VPN's, EKS, etc. • Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine • Backups • And lots more....As the team leader, my primary goal is to mentor and guide the team members to realize their full potential as they constantly learn new technologies. Tools: Amazon AWS (ELB, ASG, EMR, VPC), Spinnaker, Python, and more! Show less



Borderfree

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior DevOps Engineer - Tel Aviv

  • Mar 2014 - Dec 2014

  Integrating DevOps methodologies into the day-to-day culture of BorderFree, and making sure everything runs smoothly! Design, implementation, and maintenance of all aspects of Enterprise Production IT including: • Virtualization and Clouds (VMware and EC2) • Network (Juniper, Cisco, Switching, Routing, IPSec and SSL VPN) • High Performance Load Balancing (F5) • Configuration Management (Puppet) • Security (both application-level security and Juniper, Checkpoint, and Fortinet appliances) • Databases (CouchBase, Mongo, MySQL, Oracle) • Jenkins/Bamboo/TeamCity • Datacenters (Infrastructure, racks, cabling) • DevOps Development in Python, Bash, Ruby, etc. Show less



PLAYSTUDIOS ISRAEL

• Israel
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Systems Architect, DevOps/TechOps

  • Oct 2011 - Mar 2014

  Working with a DevOps team planning, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based Web Application stacks (Tomcat, SpringBoot, MongoDB) and development environments running on Xen hypervisors. AWS/Rackspace Cloud Automation using both custom Python scripts and open-source Cloud Automation frameworks, such as Asgard. Implementing Configuration Management/Continuous Integration for automated and controlled deployment of infrastructure (Chef) and code (Jenkins). Additionally, the team is ultimately responsible for all Internal IT including telephony (Asterisk), network (Cisco ASA and HP Switches) and infrastructure. Show less



William Hill

• United Kingdom
• Gambling Facilities and Casinos
• 700 & Above Employee

• Production Team Leader, Unix/Network Architect

  • Dec 2006 - Oct 2011

  (Previously "Unix Architect" at Ad-Gency, acquired by William Hill Online in January, 2010) Responsible for all operations of production UNIX services. Additionally, responsible for all infrastructure including network (Cisco ASA firewalls/VPN, switches, routers, F5 BigIP L4-7 load balancers) and Storage (EMC Clariion FibreChannel SAN and related SAN network). Managed a team of Production UNIX admins maintaining mission-critical UNIX and Linux installations at multiple datacenters. These hybrid x86 and Solaris SPARC installations relied heavily on various virtualization technologies (Sun/Oracle Logical Domains, Solaris Zones, and VMWare). Involved in planning and implementing production solutions at all lifecycle stages. This includes compiling requirements, planning, evaluating and negotiating with DataCenters, procuring hardware, installation, configuration, deployment, continued maintenance, and eventual decommissioning of the environment. Additional Responsibilities: Linux and Solaris internals. Postfix, Apache, Squid, MySQL Cluster management. Advising the developers in PHP, C++, SQL, etc. Asterisk PBX administration (and integration/design). Designing fully redundant and resilient systems. Show less



Israel Defense Forces

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2006 - Oct 2006

  Worked in an officer's position to coordinate between the IDF, Israeli, and American contractors on a large, technical project. Designed acceptance tests for large subsystems. Worked with a broad range of technologies, including encrypted cellular networks, GeoPositioning (GPS) systems, real-time hardware, and computer interfaces. Also supervised the installation of a large multimedia theater system for both local and mobile after-action reviews. Worked in an officer's position to coordinate between the IDF, Israeli, and American contractors on a large, technical project. Designed acceptance tests for large subsystems. Worked with a broad range of technologies, including encrypted cellular networks, GeoPositioning (GPS) systems, real-time hardware, and computer interfaces. Also supervised the installation of a large multimedia theater system for both local and mobile after-action reviews.



Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT)

• Unix Systems and Network Administrator

  • Dec 2000 - May 2006

  Extensive Unix, server and network administration, including computer security. Experience with multiple Linux distributions, Solaris and SGI Irix. Deep knowledge of routing topologies, network protocols and troubleshooting. Experience in various High Performance clustering technologies (Beowulf, MOSIX, etc). Provided support for researchers to find optimal solutions to their requirements. Extensive Unix, server and network administration, including computer security. Experience with multiple Linux distributions, Solaris and SGI Irix. Deep knowledge of routing topologies, network protocols and troubleshooting. Experience in various High Performance clustering technologies (Beowulf, MOSIX, etc). Provided support for researchers to find optimal solutions to their requirements.



Ohio Supercomputer Center

• Intern (High School)

  • Sep 1999 - Apr 2000

  Wrote system accounting scripts (PERL) for their large-scale computing systems. Learned to use IRIX and work with SGI hardware. Wrote system accounting scripts (PERL) for their large-scale computing systems. Learned to use IRIX and work with SGI hardware.