Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

• Ongoing advisory and mentoring work supporting leaders, teams, and individuals across the tech ecosystem.
• Provide pro-bono and paid advisory support to startups, nonprofits, and individuals in tech, with a focus on leadership, management, and organizational strategy
• Mentor executives and leadership teams to strengthen people management, decision-making, and company culture
• Design and implement organizational tools and processes, including a performance review methodology now in active use at a nonprofit
• Support individuals at different career stages - from engineers to managers - in advancing their careers, preparing for interviews, and achieving professional growth

Feb 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Tel Aviv District, Israel · Hybrid

• Engineering Site Lead for Pinecone’s Tel Aviv office; managed R&D teams in TLV and EMEA, reporting to the CTO
• Owned the core database engine development, along with offerings focused on AI/ML applications and supporting infrastructure
• Represented Engineering in high-stakes customer engagements, driving multi-million-dollar ARR wins
• Led initiatives to improve stability of mission-critical systems and promote engineering excellence across the organization
• Drove hiring and performance management while maintaining team stability through major org changes

Apr 2023 – Feb 2024 · 10 mos

Jul 2018 – Apr 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Leading a team of highly talented software engineers, we are building a large-scale distributed control plane, which powers multiple offerings by RDS Aurora.
• Aurora is the fastest growing service in the history of AWS, and my team designs and develops services which allow us to scale Aurora even faster.

Jan 2014 – Jul 2018 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Israel

• My work at Stratoscale is extremely diverse, with a wide array of cutting edge technologies - containers (Kubernetes & Docker), Consul, distributed systems & microservices, Elasticsearch, working in CI/CD pipelines, Go and Python programming, managing a SaaS application on AWS and much more.
• My team and I are developing and running a SaaS application which manages Stratoscale's remote deployments, and helps us proactively monitor our customers, and give them the best user experience possible. We are building a go-based deployment, using CI/CD, with the latest technologies.
• Inspired by advanced cloud practices, Stratoscale provides development teams and IT the building blocks to build modern applications faster and continuously scale to meet evolving business needs.
• Stratoscale offers a comprehensive AWS-compatible services suite and on-prem IaaS so that the data center is transformed into an agile, flexible and scalable environment, aligned with the public cloud.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr

• Designing and developing embedded secure applications using the ARM TrustZone technology, in various fields, mainly content protection and DRM.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 · 6 yrs

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Netanya, Israel

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr · Herzeliya, Israel