Jan 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Israel

• Launched the Nielsen Buyer Insights and re-launched Nielsen's core Segments product for Nielsen Marketing Cloud. R&D team with a web fullstack team of 7 software engineers, developing with React, Node.js, Dockers container technology and deploying on AWS.
• ► Successfully built and launched Nielsen Buyer Insights product in record speed of 3 months and a 3 person team collaborating with our US counterparts PM and UX to visualize Starbucks campaign data trends.
• ► Lead the adoption of Node.js based microservices for the engineering group (~35 devs) which provided project skeleton, best practices and promoted the use of inner-sourced shared components for backends.
• ► Managing team's personal goals and career growth towards Tech Lead positions for the engineering grouop and public-facing activities such as public speaking for international conferences.
• ► Introduced git practices for advancing CI/CD adoption by implementing trunk based development workflows, which rolled out wide to the rest of the engineering group (6 teams). Key part of cross-team projects across the engineering group such as shared UI web components and style guides, RESTful API best practices, and Consumer Driven Contract testing.
• ► Establishing community and opensource initiatives for the Israeli R&D site by growing 1500+ members for TheBigWebTheory meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/The-Big-Web-Theory). Mentored engineers into public speaking and involvement in open source projects on GitHub by building Nielsen's OSS organization: https://github.com/nielsen-oss
• ► Boosted Nielsen's Israel security program and DevSecOps posture by creating a culture of Security Champions who created security cheatsheets, regularly triaging security vulnerabilities and pentest reports, and integrating Snyk as an SCA tool in the company's CI pipelines for Java and Node.js projects.

Oct 2013 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Yehud, Israel

• Leading an R&D full stack team of 11 Frontend, Backend and DevOps engineers to build the company’s web marketplace platform on HPE’s SaaS cloud.
• ► Managing release planning, technical architecture, recruiting, and collaboration with remote R&D team in Romania/US, and PM/UX/UI for requirements, and customer support.
• ► Lead the technology transition and architecture from a PHP Drupal-based marketplace tech to a microservices architecture comprised of the JavaScript MEAN stack (AngularJS, Node.js, MongoDB) and Java Spring REST API backend.
• ► Continuous improvement of agile processes, creating multi-national feature teams and managing the R&D group’s agile workflow based on SCRUM activities.
• ► Mentoring and empowering team members, technical hands-on, code reviews, coding standards and best practices. Organizing hackathons, technical hub meetups, promoting open source team culture and activity.
• ► Security lead for our business unit, activities, blogs, early adopter for information security toolset, lecturing on security topics.
• Hands-on engineering in the following technology stack:
• MEAN.JS microservice APIs based on Node.js, ExpressJS, MongoDB, npm, gulp, linting, mocha tests, Istanbul, pm2. ElasticSearch, and Spring/Jetty backend based on MySQL.
• Frontend stack based on Yeoman AngularJS 1.4, bootstrap 4, sass, grunt, bower, jasmine, phantomjs and karma.
• DevOps with Jenkins CI/CD, Blue-Green deployment, and HPE Fortify & WebInspect security pipeline. Docker development environment.

Feb 2011 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Yehud, Israel

• At HP's Live Network R&D group, I'm the hands-on technology lead on the team for a PHP Drupal based marketplace platform. Playing a key role in system architecture design, shaping the technology strategy from planning and development to deployment and maintenance in HP Software's SaaS cloud.
• ► Lead developer, building and driving technology architecture for HP Software’s marketplace based on Drupal 6 LAMP CMS: Apache, MySQL, PHP 5.3, jQuery, and Gearman job manager.
• Working with a globally distributed R&D team (Israel and Romania), Product Owner and Functional Architect to lead and build key product features.
• ► Developed and open sourced Drupal modules for granular access security control, forums management, downloads and rating analytics. Developed the authentication and authorization integration for Drupal and HP Passport and SSO for user management and entitlements.
• ► Developed essential project’s infrastructure tools for migration and patch management to automate synchronized environments for prod, stage and dev.
• ► Developed the Email to Web notification mechanism based on tokens and permissions and Drupal’s forums integration with Linux’s Postfix and Procmail daemons.
• ► 10x significant web performance improvement through MySQL DB engine tuning, Percona toolkit analysis of SQL queries and indexes re-factoring, Apache tuning and Drupal’s PHP modules refactoring (hooks, static cache).
• ► Introducing Git, and Git workflows to support agile development, branches & PRs.
• ► Owner for our Linux-based production and dev environments in HP SaaS, focal point for our system administration, monitoring, networking and performance engineering, building migration and deployment tools for CI/CD. Using: HP SiteScope, Munin, and Pingdom.
• ► Mentoring and empowering colleagues for MySQL, Linux and PHP best practices, Git workflow, information security and Linux DevOps skills.

Aug 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Israel

• Envisioned kupoya on a sunny December day, I teamed up with my friends to build the best team possible to develop, market and bring to the world a new way of advertising through the use of social networks. The rest is history.
• Co-led the selling of Kupoya's Intellectual Property to European financial media agency Commerce International LTD (ACTU-CCI.COM)
• Leading and development of Kupoya's technology platform design and architecture
• Founding business strategy principles and mentoring the start-up team members from the get go

Dec 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

Apr 2007 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Tel Aviv Area, Israel

• Linux and Software Engineer for IPGear, acquired by TELES NG.
• ► Development of PHP CodeIgniter statistics product as OpenSUSE appliance.
• ► Developed and support kernel modules (Linux MIPS), cross-compilation SDK, and migrated embedded stack from 2.4 to 2.6 Linux kernel.
• ► SMS server C++ project on embedded Linux, and maintained C CGI based Web GUI.
• ► Lead product development of SIP Proxy Server based on open source project OpenSER.
• ► Developed billing extension and web accounting with complete FreeRADIUS integration for AAA purposes. Also developed customized product LiveCD for customer evaluation and deployments.

Feb 2007 – Aug 2012 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Open Source · Remote

• Leading development strategies, roadmaps and software design. Managing team members and source code control as well as reviewing bug fixes, code contributions, patches, feature requests and actively providing support to end-users and professionals.
• daloRADIUS is an Open Source web platform for RADIUS management aimed at managing hotspots and general-purpose ISP deployments. It features user management, graphical reporting, accounting, a billing engine and integrates with GoogleMaps for geo-locating

Sep 2005 – Apr 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Senior Linux Engineer for the R&D Team, bringing Open Source community experience and broad knowledge of open source Linux software.
• ► Designed and implemented from scratch a quadruple-play WISP and Managed Hotspots solution in a complete Open Source Linux-based environment for deployment in Sierra Leone, Africa.
• ► Remote Access - L2TP/PPPoE VPNs, and open source Captive Portal technology.
• DHCP, DNS, SQUID Proxy, Clustered MySQL, Postfix/Courier mail system, IDS, Firewalls and Nagios monitoring. QOS bandwidth shaping (HTB protocol), network load balancing and high availability with Linux tc and Linux-HA project.
• ► Deploy and development of Asterisk VoIP gateway, and AGI Perl scripts. Development of PHP web billing software based on Google Maps API and FreeRADIUS AAA.
• ► Building a wireless router based on Linux and OpenWRT project.
• ► Networking QA experience – NistNET, layer-2 switches, Radlan ROS, Smartbit equipment, Relational ClearQuert and networking protocols. Familiarity with IP and network protocols L3-L7, networking concepts- routing, switching, load balancing and traffic shaping.

Jan 2005 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos · Rishon LeZion Area, Israel

• ► Worked closely with the ISP development team, developing a PPTP GUI VPN dialer for 012's Linux users community.
• ► Worked with the training team of 012 to improve and create better networking and Linux courses to other support members as well as giving lectures on these subjects.
• ► Provided professional support in trouble-shooting networking, security, VoIP (SIP), and acted as focal point for Linux in my team.