Engineering leader and hands-on tech lead with 16+ years building production software and 5+ years leading engineering teams. Currently driving identity platform architecture and AI-assisted engineering at LinearB, with deep hands-on experience across cloud, distributed systems, and security.

Career

2022 – now

LinearBEngineering intelligence for software teams

Software Tech Leader 2024 – present Tech lead

  • - Built the Users & Identity Management platform from the ground up, unifying identities across Git, Jira, AI tools, Slack, and LinearB into one model.
  • - Architected and implemented a scalable, event-driven identity merge platform with asynchronous processing, and extended the Public API with secure token-based authentication, enabling enterprise-scale identity management.
  • - Improved platform reliability and scalability by eliminating Lambda, database, and transaction bottlenecks and introducing automated production failure monitoring.
  • - Pioneered AI coding assistant adoption across engineering, building an MCP server and a spec-driven development pipeline.

Software Team Leader 2022 – 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.
  • - Designed and implemented an enterprise-grade identity and access platform end to end, spanning authentication (SSO/SAML), authorization (RBAC), and automated user provisioning (SCIM 2.0).
  • - Owned technical solutions end to end and mentored engineers, raising code quality and delivery practices across the team.
2017 – 2022

Blue dotTax-compliance fintech, Herzliya — rebranded from VATBox in April 2021

Software Team Leader 2020 – 2022 Team lead

  • - Led a cross-functional team of 3 developers and 1 QA engineer, owning delivery of Taxable Employee Benefits (TEB) from design through production.
  • - Directed end-to-end technical design and defined architecture and engineering standards across services.

Senior Fullstack Developer 2017 – 2020

  • - Built the VATBox Portal, the platform's primary customer-facing gateway application, with an Angular frontend and a Node.js/Python backend.
2010 – 2017

Mellanox TechnologiesData-center networking, now part of NVIDIA

Senior Frontend Developer 2015 – 2017

  • - Built NEO, a data-center networking platform designed to simplify network provisioning, monitoring, and operations.

Python OpenStack Developer 2014 – 2015

  • - Engineered open-source OpenStack cloud networking infrastructure, integrating SDN providers and SR-IOV through custom driver and monitoring plugins, while developing automated tools for cloud deployment and network traffic observability.

Team Leader, E2E Windows Clustering 2012 – 2014 Team lead

  • - Led a 4-person engineering team (2 developers, 2 DevOps) in building and operating large-scale E2E testing infrastructure that simulated massive network traffic across 128 physical Windows servers, ensuring system scalability, clustering performance, and reliability.

Software Developer, Windows Drivers Verification 2010 – 2012

  • - Started my career developing and validating Mellanox Windows network drivers, building C-based test suites with the Windows NDIS API and a Python-based regression framework to automate driver verification.

Skills

Languages & frameworks

TypeScript Node.js Python Angular React C

AI & identity

AI coding assistants MCP AI agents & SDD OAuth 2.0 SAML / SSO SCIM 2.0

Cloud & data

AWS Lambda PostgreSQL Redis SQS/SNS CI/CD

Leadership & practices

Team leadership Architecture & system design Mentoring Agile

Education

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