Tel Aviv District, Israel
https://stackoverflow.com/users/8162407/a-k https://dev.to/akotek
Email Security
Semperis is a cybersecurity company specializing in Active Directory security, recovery, and identity system protection. Backed by KRR, Insight Partners. Developed a new cloud security product for Active Directory and Entra ID from scratch, achieving multi-region Azure deployment with dozens enterprise customers. Developed event streaming architecture using Postgres, Opensearch, Kafka, Kafka Streams, C# microservices on Azure and OData APIs. Leading team of 7 engineers - BE and FE. R&D Processes: * Incident Management: implemented on-call rotations using PagerDuty, Teams & Azure Monitor. * Pods Dev Model: transitioning from scrum to pod structure with 2-3x pods working independently per quarter towards business objectives. * Postmortem & Retrospectives. * Onboarding: designed and implemented new dev onboarding process. * Technical Debt management. * Hiring and interviewing. Technologies used: C#, Azure AKS, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Postgres, OpenSearch, AppInsights, Helm, OData, Terraform, Keycloak, Claude Code
Sproutt raised 38M (B) to build innovative Insurtech platform. Led Sproutt's R&D, developing its core b2b platform from scratch MVP to market fit (micro-services on AWS). Mixed squad, flat dev team (10-12), Poland and IL): backend, frontend, automation, data-science, team-lead. (20% hands on: backend & DevOps). Building R&D processes: scrumban, observability, incident management, planning, SDLC (GitStream, Codium AI), retrospective, TD management and managing R&D roadmap. Hiring: built companies recruiting pipeline, onboarding new devs, interviewed and hired for various roles. Manage our cloud infra and DevOps on AWS: cost reduction, disaster-recovery, managed services, IaC, adhering SOC2 standards (Compiled 23,24) Reporting to the CTO, tight work with sales team. Technologies used: Microservices, Clojure, Python, AWS, Redis, MySQL (RDS), MongoDB, Docker, K8s (EKS), IaC (CloudFormation), Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway), Logz.io, TDD, REST API's.
built a full text search back office for ConnectedHome IoT product using Elasticsearch, Spring core and TDD.