Engineering leader and hands-on tech lead with 16 years of experience building production software and 5+ years leading engineering teams.

I specialize in distributed systems, identity and security, cloud architecture, and AI-assisted engineering — combining technical ownership with people leadership.

16+ yrsbuilding production software
5+ yrsleading engineering teams
Hands-on architectureacross cloud, distributed systems & security
AI-assisted engineering& developer productivity

Career

Led a teamEngineering role
2022 – now4 yrs 6 mo

LinearBEngineering intelligence and workflow automation for software teams · Hybrid

Software Tech Leader Jan 2024 – present Tech lead

Built the Users & Identity Management platform from the ground up, unifying contributor identities across Git, Jira, AI coding tools, Slack, and LinearB into a single consolidated identity model, while driving the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the team.

  • Designed a multi-mode identity merge system supporting AI-driven automatic merges, event-driven email-based merges, and manual single and bulk merges through the UI.
  • Extended the Public API with token-based authentication, role and scope enforcement, and bulk Teams & Users endpoints, enabling enterprise customers to securely manage identity data at scale.
  • Redesigned the merge/unmerge architecture around stable internal user identifiers, preventing data-integrity issues during repeated operations.
  • Added PostgreSQL trigram (pg_trgm) and GIN search indexes across users, accounts, and contributors, powering fast fuzzy search at scale.
  • Improved platform reliability and scalability by eliminating Lambda, database, and transaction bottlenecks and introducing automated production failure monitoring.
  • Pioneered Claude Code adoption across engineering, contributing reusable AI skills for production log triage, data-sync auditing, integration health checks, and automated customer-ticket triage.
  • Contributed to LinearB's own Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, migrating its team-search endpoint from the v1 to the v2 API.
  • Built a spec-driven development pipeline that turns Jira issues into engineering specifications, generates feature documentation from Jira and GitHub data, and produces end-to-end test plans that surface infrastructure risks before implementation.
TypeScript · Node.js · Python · AWS Lambda · Microservices · PostgreSQL · MySQL · REST / Public APIs · OAuth / API tokens · Feature flags · CI/CD · Claude Code · MCP

Software Team Leader Apr 2022 – Jan 2024 Team lead

Led a cross-functional team of 3–5 full-stack developers, driving architecture, technical strategy, and delivery for LinearB's engineering analytics platform.

  • Architected enterprise-grade authentication infrastructure, including SSO/SAML federation and SCIM 2.0 provisioning across multiple identity providers.
  • Designed and delivered a role-based access control system: permission framework, access scopes, token-based authorization, data migration, and the team and group management APIs and UI behind it.
  • Designed a scalable OAuth-based integrations framework connecting the platform with the major source-control providers.
  • Led the design and delivery of a hierarchical team-structure engine, enabling nested organizational hierarchies with roll-up analytics and drill-down reporting across teams and sub-teams.
  • Owned technical solutions end to end, from architecture and system design through implementation and rollout, partnering closely with Product and QA.
  • Mentored engineers and drove engineering standards, raising code quality, design, and delivery practices across the team.
  • Introduced automated production exception alerting with real-time Slack notifications, improving visibility into production issues and speeding up resolution.
TypeScript · Angular · Node.js · Python · OAuth 2.0 · SAML / SSO · SCIM 2.0 · Microservices · REST APIs · AWS · MongoDB · MySQL · CI/CD
2017 – 20224 yrs 11 mo

Blue dotTax-compliance fintech, Herzliya

Software Team Leader Jun 2020 – Apr 2022 Team lead

Promoted to Team Leader for Blue dot's flagship platform, Taxable Employee Benefits (TEB).

  • Led a cross-functional team of 3 developers and 1 QA engineer, owning delivery from design through production.
  • Directed end-to-end technical design for TEB, from backend data pipelines through client-facing flows.
  • Defined architecture and engineering standards across services; reviewed team members' system designs and mentored on best practices.
Angular 11 · Node.js 14 · Python 3.8 · NgRx · MySQL 5.6/8 · MongoDB 4 · Redshift · Aurora · AWS DMS, Kinesis, Serverless

Senior Fullstack Developer Jun 2017 – Jun 2020

Senior full-stack engineer on Blue dot's VAT Box platform.

  • Built and launched the VAT Box portal end to end: UI in Angular, backend in Node.js and Python.
  • Designed and implemented full-stack solutions across the platform's data pipelines and client-facing application.
  • Solved high-scale processing challenges for OCR-extracted invoice data, handling large transaction volumes reliably.
  • Delivered a data-driven feature powered by Tableau analytics, giving users actionable insight into their VAT reclaim data.
  • Contributed to end-to-end technical planning, from data-flow architecture through to UI, and to system design reviews with peers.
Angular · Node.js · Python · NgRx · MySQL · MongoDB · Redshift · Aurora · AWS · Tableau
2010 – 20176 yrs 6 mo

Mellanox TechnologiesData-center networking, now part of NVIDIA

Senior Frontend Developer May 2015 – Apr 2017

  • Developed NEO, a data-center networking platform designed to simplify network provisioning, monitoring, and operations.
  • Contributed to building scalable automation and management capabilities for modern data-center networks.
Data-center networking · Network automation · Provisioning · Monitoring

Python OpenStack Developer Mar 2014 – May 2015

  • Designed and developed an SDN mechanism driver plugin to propagate network updates to SDN providers.
  • Designed and developed an OpenStack cloud installation and deployment tool.
  • Designed and developed a Ceilometer inspector plugin for collecting SR-IOV network traffic counters.
OpenStack · SDN · SR-IOV · Ceilometer · Python

Team Leader, E2E Windows Clustering Jan 2012 – Mar 2014 Team lead

Led a team of 2 developers and 2 DevOps engineers responsible for end-to-end testing and large-scale traffic simulation across 128 physical Windows servers.

  • Designed and executed large-scale clustering, performance, and reliability tests.
  • Owned test infrastructure, execution, troubleshooting, and technical direction.
  • Collaborated with development and DevOps teams to identify and resolve complex system issues.
Windows clustering · E2E testing · Distributed systems · Performance testing

Software Developer, Windows Drivers Verification Nov 2010 – Jan 2012

Started my career as a student software developer, specializing in Windows kernel and driver verification for Mellanox network drivers.

  • Developed C-based tests using the Windows NDIS API to verify new and existing driver features.
  • Built a Python-based regression environment to automate and execute the test suite.
C · Python · Windows kernel · NDIS API · Windows drivers
2005 – 20072 yrs 1 mo

012 Golden LinesInternet service provider

Home Network Support Specialist Sep 2005 – Sep 2007

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership Architecture & system design Technical strategy Mentoring & engineering standards Partnering with Product & QA

AI-assisted engineering

Claude Code MCP Reusable AI skills & agents Spec-driven development Automated triage & auditing

Backend

TypeScript Node.js Python Microservices REST / Public APIs C

Identity & security

OAuth 2.0 SAML / SSO JWT SCIM 2.0 RBAC API tokens & scopes

Frontend

Angular React Redux NgRx JavaScript

Cloud & data

AWS Lambda Serverless Framework Kinesis Event-driven architecture (SQS/SNS) CloudWatch / PagerDuty PostgreSQL Query optimization (EXPLAIN) MongoDB Redis Redshift / Aurora CI/CD Feature flags

Education

2016 – 2018
MBA, Financial ManagementThe Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo
2007 – 2010
B.Sc. Computer ScienceTel-Hai College

Beyond the day job

2016 – 2020
Python instructorTaught Python to new developers for 4 years
2013 – 2015
Ran workshop activities, Ruach GabitVolunteer, social services

Outside work

Running & CrossFit Alpine trekking Hiking Family travel Football Reading books Vinyl records New tech & AI Laughing