Michael Bar-Sinai

CTO @ Provengo Technologies (TechStars TLV 2022) | PhD Software Engineering | Harvard IQSS Fellow

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

Software engineer/System architect/Hacker/Researcher. Recently completed a PhD thesis exploring the usage of Behavioral Programming as a modeling core in model-driven software engineering. Experienced in building factory production systems, web systems, desktop and mobile apps, as well as frameworks, runtimes, and methodologies for using them. I have taken systems from inception to production and beyond (eliciting requirements, creating specs, coding and set-up). I participate in research groups at BGU and Harvard, and in open source projects (some of which I've started). 
Plus, I'm a nice guy.

Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer at Provengo (previously Testory); Techstars 2022
    2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

    Provengo streamlines the software development process for all teams involved, by providing a dynamic, executable requirements phase that ensures precise, fast and efficient outcomes.

  • Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) (11 yrs 5 mos)
    • Associate
      Sep 2014 - Aug 2024 · 10 yrs

      Continue working, remotely, on the DataTags and Dataverse projects.

    • Visiting Fellow
      Apr 2013 - Aug 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Working as developer/architect/researcher on various software projects, including research projects, and on writing research grants (including NSF, NIH). Taking active part at the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data (http://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu), an NSF-funded project conducted at Harvard. My projects include contributions to Dataverse (http://datascience.iq.harvard.edu/dataverse), where I work on the design and implementation of permission-based security, and DataTags (http://datascience.iq.harvard.edu/datatags) where I design and implement programming languages, a runtime engine, tools and web servers for interactively tagging data sets. In Addition, I contribute and write white papers and present on various technological topics (see links below).

  • Owner at CodeWorth
    Aug 2012 - Jun 2020 · 7 yrs 11 mos

    Codeworth is a boutique software studio, providing high-quality software consultancy services. We mainly focus on complex domains, such as legal modeling, novel visualizations, and rich information systems. Codeworth clients include government, NGOs, non-profits, academic institutes, and commercial companies. For some, we have improved existing systems. For others, we created new systems, starting with requirement elicitation and moving to a working system.

  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (9 yrs 6 mos)
    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Sep 2019 - 2020 · 5 mos

    • Doctoral Student
      Aug 2010 - Sep 2019 · 9 yrs 2 mos

      Thesis subject: Extending Behavioral Programming for Model-Driven Engineering.

  • Senior Software Architect at Be'eri Print
    Nov 2008 - Aug 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Head of programming team. Taking systems from the requirements phase to implementation, and beyond (v2, 3...), both internal and client-facing. Creating methodologies, development environments and reusable component libraries. Design and implementation of high-volume production systems. Teaching. Driving outsourced projects.