Dec 2025 – Present · 3 mos · United States · Remote

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr · United States · Remote

• Cross-functional leader overseeing the design and build of Netflix’s Live Command Center facilities. Integrated hardware and software solutions and created workflows for large-scale live event operations. Collaborating across Operations, Platform Engineering, Data, and Facilities to define architecture, implement audio/video observability systems, and ensure real-time monitoring from signal transmission to device playback.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Designed and deployed a next-generation Live Operations Center, scaling capacity from hundreds to over 10K live events annually, supporting events with tens of millions of concurrent viewers worldwide.
• Developed automated Quality-of-Experience systems, monitoring concurrent video/audio streams in real time, boosting operator efficiency by 500% and reducing customer-impacting issues to near zero.
• Designed an innovative consumer device farm, introducing automated A/V monitoring, providing >90% coverage of consumer devices.
• Led the foundation for developing advanced audio/video defect detectors.

Mar 2019 – Aug 2024 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid

• Technical leadership of 120+ video engineers, system engineers, broadcast associates and live operation managers globally. Designing and implementing broadcast-grade live OTT video operation centers, monitoring services and CI/CD video pipelines. Working closely with integrators, vendors and partners to qualify solutions for large-scale video streaming environments. Architected headend infrastructure builds, led global monitoring solutions, and drove innovative cloud-based technical approaches to video engineering.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Designed and built ten state-of-art video operation centers across the US and Europe, increasing operational capacity from a few hundred in 2019 to over 150K live sport events in 2025, serving hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide. Leveraging on-premise and cloud workflows, integrated and created automated Quality-of-Experience solutions to monitor over 9K video/audio sources concurrently. The solutions provide real-time audio/video defects detection, increasing operator efficiency by 500% and reducing customer-facing issues to near zero.
• Designed and built CI/CD infrastructure to execute automated tests on hundreds of consumer devices, capturing issues with beta and production versions of the Prime Video application as a result of code changes.
• Submitted a patent for an innovative large-scale audio/video monitoring approach, reducing infrastructure costs by as much as 90%.

Aug 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Jose, CA

• Subject-matter expert for video technologies, architecture and services, with a focus on IPTV technology. Accompanying on-site installations, facilitating technical aspects of sales meetings and providing technical support to existing customers. Assisting in integration phase of various IPTV products and evaluating new technologies. Testing software & hardware in a prevalidation phase to assist special customers with dedicated applications.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Successfully transitioned key customer to new hardware platform, resulting in a long-term, highly profitable contract.
• Designed a large-scale IPTV & digital signage system for the new Golden State Warriors Arena in San Francisco.

Dec 2014 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Israel · On-site

• Architecting high-capacity, ultra-low latency, end-to-end video/audio infrastructure. Implementing solutions from studio-grade cameras and microphones to video/audio processing equipment, encoding, transcoding, network, cloud deployments and CDN integration. Hands-on software development of backend and frontend systems and systems engineering. Provided R&D with support in building streaming applications at scale, increasing stream stability.
• Working with prominent licensees such as Skybet, Bet365 & Ladbrokes on integrating our multi-platform Live video product into their applications, which serve a high-volume of viewers daily, mostly in Europe and Asia. Hands-on work with CDN providers such as Akamai and Limelight, and cloud services vendor SoftLayer to distribute secure, live, high-quality video globally.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Designed a state-of-the-art head-end and NOC for our Riga based studio, consisting of 90 casino tables with 200 professional cameras, encoders and transcoders, SDI routers, monitoring systems, high-end audio systems and network equipment.
• Successfully developed and implemented new streaming platforms through usage of low-latency technologies.
• Recognized for designing and executing HTML5 live streaming platform, resulting in improved brand identity exposure and exponential growth in mobile device engagement.
• Awarded Playtech Israel 2015 employee of the year.

Jun 2014 – Dec 2014 · 6 mos · Israel

• Selected to serve as primary point of contact for technical innovation and supervisor for large-scale broadcast and CDN projects. Worked to improve aggregate productivity and facilitate pre-sales and post-sales of various products.
• Key Accomplishment:
• Successfully transitioned broadcast authority services to a live and VOD streaming platform, slashing time and operating deficiencies while driving efficiency.

Nov 2013 – Jun 2014 · 7 mos · Israel

• Consistently developed and implemented new strategies to enhance corporate server efficiency and network security. Collaborated closely with clients on-site and off-site to resolve operational issues and improve overall system functionality. Performed integral manual tests to strengthen Linux-based video products and drive service efficiency.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Served as key contributor to defined project development and execution to drive operational growth and enhance commitment to quality.
• Integral participant in design of newest broadcast product, resulting in significant sales growth across Europe and Israel.

Dec 2011 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Israel, Neve Ilan

• Responsible for designing and optimizing video and data for large-scale satellite and IP projects. Performed detailed support and development work for satellite broadcasting systems and DVB.
• Key Accomplishment:
• Successfully and effectively launched corporate CDN and OTT services, resulting in significant revenue growth and improved cross-channel service performance.

Dec 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr · Neve Ilan

Mar 2009 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Jerusalem District, Israel

Mar 2008 – Sep 2008 · 6 mos · Jerusalem District, Israel

Feb 2005 – Feb 2008 · 3 yrs · Israel