Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Building software for fun and profit :)
• Scaled R&D department from 5 to 27 professionals, leading 5 cross-functional teams in backend, full-stack, DevOps, QA, and data science. • Managed the department budget (salaries, cloud hosting and vendors) • Developed and mentored team leaders to drive customer obsession, delivery, quality, and engineer empowerment • Led product development from pre-revenue stage to many enterprise customers and hundreds of POCs • Partnered with CEO and CTO on business, product strategy and key customer initiatives • Played a key role in the company's growth trajectory, overseeing R&D efforts that facilitated revenue generation from $0 to millions in ARR within 2 years • Directed system architecture to deliver high performance, reliability (99.9%) and operational efficiency • Personally engaged with strategic customers through prospecting, POCs, and onboarding processes including deployment, security reviews, and architectural reviews • Established cross-functional collaboration processes between R&D, Product Management, Sales, and Customer Success • Directed security governance and compliance, including SOC2 audits, attestation reports, risk assessments and penetration testing
• Managed two teams totaling 12 software engineers, including the Core team responsible for processing billions of financial transactions from e-commerce customers • Architected systems handling real-time transaction processing with sub-3-second response times for fraud risk assessment as part of the Chargeback Guarantee produc • Led cross-company performance testing initiatives for high-volume shopping events (Black Friday, Cyber Monday) • Spearheaded major architectural transitions from monoliths to microservices while enhancing transaction reliability
• Led a multidisciplinary team of 10 professionals (software engineers and QA) responsible for managing Cybereason's EDR fleet • Designed and implemented a distributed configuration engine and critical infrastructure components for telemetry collection and remote command execution • Delivered features enabling security teams to efficiently manage sensor fleets at scale
• Core team member following Facebook's acquisition of Snaptu, relocated to Palo Alto • Growth team: Integrated Snaptu into Facebook systems and executed projects that scaled to 100M monthly active users with high engagement • Facebook Messenger: Developed core messaging infrastructure including external APIs, web messenger infrastructure, and MQTT interface • Facebook for Every Phone: Contributed to growth initiatives reaching 400M active users • Prolific interviewer: over 200 interviews for Facebook software engineer candidates