Experience

WoodSpoon

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

• VP R&D

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  * Led the company's R&D from 3 people to 20+ top notch engineers (Backend (RoR, Go), Frontend (React, Typescript), Mobile (Swift, Kotlin) and QA Automation). Recruited ex-colleagues who wanted to work together again * Managed the Israeli site and played a key role in defining KPIs and the company's business strategy. Established and maintained productive relationships with the NY site * Designed, managed and contributed to the company-level architecture, development flow and CI/CD processes * Reduced site cost by ~70% by migrating from Heroku to AWS, Kubernetes based deployment and open source software * Set a high standard development culture, quality first, including a Confluence site, TDD with >90% code coverage and knowledge sharing routines Show less



eXelate, A Nielsen Company

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

• Big Data Solutions Lead

  • Jan 2018 - Mar 2021

  * Led a team of tech leads, seeking to solve problems of broad scope in nature, connecting between different data teams in the R&D * Designed and created Raindrop, a query layer service based on Spark, Hive, Zepplin and Airflow; exposing Nielsen's massive data lake and saving more than $2M annually * Created LifeLine, a data auditing system that tracks every single event in a 15 billion events pipeline that includes Apache Kafka and Spark based streaming applications, reducing incidents investigation time and overall impact * Launched and customized a BI Dashboard service (Apache Superset); led a task force that decided on the different metrics to collect and which decision-support KPIs to present to stakeholders Show less



Bank Hapoalim בנק הפועלים

• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• iOS Development Team Lead

  • Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  * Worked on Bit, the bank's P2P payment platform * Worked on Bit, the bank's P2P payment platform



MonkeyTech

• Israel
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Engineering & Co-Founder

  • Jan 2012 - Jan 2017

  * Led and managed 20+ projects, over 5 of them reached AppStores top charts with more than 100K MAU * Planned and managed the roadmap and budget for the company, as part of the leadership team * Recruited, mentored and lead 16 engineers across 4 different teams * Established a development platform with easy-to- implement modular components, significantly savings time in setting up new projects * Led and managed 20+ projects, over 5 of them reached AppStores top charts with more than 100K MAU * Planned and managed the roadmap and budget for the company, as part of the leadership team * Recruited, mentored and lead 16 engineers across 4 different teams * Established a development platform with easy-to- implement modular components, significantly savings time in setting up new projects



IDF

• Senior Consultant

  • May 2010 - Jul 2011

  • Upgrading and adding new components to the environments transfer system, Enabling a faster transformation with better integrity of data and applications from the debug environment to the production ones. • Leading the facility authorisation & privileges rearrangement project over TSS and DB2 systems, clearing more than 1,000 unapproved accesses while keeping the production environment intact. • Upgrading and adding new components to the environments transfer system, Enabling a faster transformation with better integrity of data and applications from the debug environment to the production ones. • Leading the facility authorisation & privileges rearrangement project over TSS and DB2 systems, clearing more than 1,000 unapproved accesses while keeping the production environment intact.



IDF

• Mainframe Infrastructure Team Leader

  • Apr 2007 - Dec 2009

  • The team was in charge of developing tools to be used by developers all across the Mainframe systems at IDF.• Managing a team of five programmer, guiding and assisting them to do their best work.• Leading the upgrade process of Websphere Application Server while researching and mapping needs with IBM and IDF applications developing teams.• Assisting and supporting the applicative teams in upgrading and converting to LE / 370.• In charge of the Mainframe information security system. Including mapping and integrating a single, centralised authorisation and identity management system.• Training new programmers, providing personal support and professional guidance.• Leading the process of storage space reduction in the facility, reducing the facility storage cost.• Managing the creation of a new test environment for the Human Resource systems, creating a safer product development process. Show less

• DB2 Database Administrator and Mainframe Infrastructure Developer

  • Feb 2004 - Apr 2007

  • Database administrator of DB2 z/OS.• Ongoing support for the development of 12 MF systems within the logistic field and over 40 programmers.• Maintenance, backups planning and setting up daily and weekly routines (DB2 Utilities).• Participating in surveys and code reviews of applications in order to improve their performance with Explain.• Designing and developing of the Mongoose System. The system provides automatic infrastructure services for applicative development teams which previously needed a DBA on site to do them.• Responsibility over the development tools (Rexx, Visual Age, PL/I) and the infrastructure interfaces built for them.• 24/7 Phone support and collaboration with facility operators in order to identify issues related to DB2. Show less