Sharon S.

Don Sharon 😎

Pardes Hana - Karkur, Haifa District, Israel

About

**Child β€’ Youth β€’ Soldier β€’ Warrior β€’ Backpacker β€’ Mechanic β€’ Engineer β€’ Mathematician β€’ Philosopher β€’ Entrepreneur** **Joker β€’ Smoker β€’ Midnight Talker β€’ Playing my music in the sun** For more details, please contact me.

Experience

  • System Integration & POC Lead at NVIDIA
    Feb 2025 - Present Β· 1 yr 5 mos

    Operating within NVIDIA’s Innovation Group, focusing on the early-stage conceptualization and technical validation of next-generation computing platforms. My role bridges the gap between theoretical R&D and practical, scalable reality. * **Future Tech Validation:** Leading complex Proof-of-Concept (POC) initiatives to assess the feasibility and potential of emerging technologies before they reach the market. * **Systemic Analysis:** Applying a holistic approach to evaluate new architectures, analyzing not just performance, but long-term viability and integration readiness. * **Strategic R&D:** Acting as a technical focal point that translates abstract research concepts into concrete, working systems, influencing the roadmap of future solutions.

  • Senior Backend Engineer, Telematics at Earnix
    Aug 2021 - Jan 2025 Β· 3 yrs 6 mos

    Key player in the Telematics division following the acquisition of Driveway. Led the backend architecture for a high-scale usage-based insurance (UBI) platform processing massive volumes of real-time driving data. * **Data Product Scale:** Designed and optimized the data ingestion pipelines handling millions of daily events, enabling real-time risk analysis for global insurance carriers. * **M&A Integration:** Led technical integration efforts post-acquisition, migrating legacy startup infrastructure into Earnix’s enterprise-grade ecosystem. * **Cloud Architecture:** Re-architected core services to improve scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency in a cloud-native environment.

  • Back End Developer at Driveway (Sold to Earnix)
    Jul 2020 - Aug 2021 Β· 1 yr 2 mos

  • Technical Leader at LIVEgg
    Feb 2019 - Jul 2020 Β· 1 yr 6 mos

    Led the technological vision and execution for an early-stage startup. Operated at the intersection of product and engineering to deliver a scalable SaaS solution under tight constraints. * **Product-Led Engineering:** Translated high-level business goals into technical roadmaps and actionable user stories, ensuring rapid time-to-market. * **Cloud Architecture:** Designed a cost-efficient Serverless architecture (AWS) to minimize operational overhead and support dynamic scaling. * **Agile Delivery:** Established CI/CD pipelines and agile workflows to accelerate feature release cycles and enable quick feedback loops.

  • Entrepreneurship at Koobeca
    Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 Β· 1 yr 1 mo

    Founder & Product Lead Company: Koobeca (Self-employed) Founded a self-funded privacy-centric social network initiative. Owned the full product lifecycle, focusing on strategy, specification, and vendor management to deliver a functional MVP. * Vendor Management & Technical Specification: Directed the technical execution by managing an external development team. Defined detailed product requirements and oversaw the customization of a white-label platform to align with the product vision. * Marketing & GTM Strategy: Designed the brand messaging and executed a crowdfunding campaign (Headstart). Gained hands-on experience in the challenges of B2C user acquisition and community building. * Strategic Retrospective: Concluded the venture after validating that the capital requirements for scaling a network-effect platform exceeded the bootstrap model. Gained valuable insights into unit economics and market entry barriers.