Yaron Lavi — CTO

• An R&D Executive with a goal-oriented, can-do approach. Highly-experienced in various company sizes from small startups to large enterprises. • Vast experience in building and managing software products and teams of SW specialists, and taking business requirements to beautiful and full-blown applications. • Complete ownership of product SW architecture, from A-Z, and designing aspects of infra, data, backend, and frontend. Always engaged with positions that require experience, responsibility, technology expertise - all done with great interpersonal skills and a unique managerial approach to bring people to their full potential. • Focused on business orientation and deducing the technologies the company will best benefit from, given to business strategy and roadmap. Specialties and strengths: • Cloud, Serverless Architecture, Big Data & Data Lakes, Node.js, React, React-Native, Object-Oriented Design, NoSql, Puppet, Jenkins, C#, Asp.net, HTML, CSS, MySql, PostgreSQL, Mongo, MQ, DynamoDB, MSSQL, Mobile. • A UI/UX specialist and consultant, keen to provide the best UX possible for complex systems, while giving users simplicity, elegance and... some fun • Architecture, Design, and Implementation of large-scale Systems based on Cloud-first, micro-services and multi-tier Architecture • A "People person" - optimistic and enthusiastic, looking forward to each new day :) • Agile evangelist, bringing methodologies and tools across an organization • Cloud hosting & technologies using AWS EC2, RDS & EMR, Kinesis, Cognito, S3, Git/SVN, k8s/EKS • Mobile: Android, mobile analytics, mobile ad networks, • Sharp, intelligent, self-learner and self-motivated, a team player • People person, optimistic and enthusiastic about what I do

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Big Data expert with extensive experience in R&D leadership.

Experience: 34 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Full Stack Development
Big Data Technologies
Devops Management
Test Automation

Career Highlights

Proven track record in leading R&D teams.
Expertise in cloud and big data technologies.
Strong focus on user experience and product design.

Work Experience

Deel

CTO (6 yrs)

Zira

VP R&D (1 yr 9 mos)

Jethro

R&D Director, Full Stack and DevOps (1 yr 5 mos)

Applied Materials

Head of DevOps and Test Automation (7 mos)

Amdocs

Head of R&D, ACC Division (2 yrs 3 mos)

R&D Director, Operability and Usability Architect (2 yrs 3 mos)

R&D Director, GUI Development & Design Architect (5 yrs 8 mos)

SigValue

R&D Team Leader, GUI (6 yrs 1 mo)

Pelephone

R&D Team Leader (2 yrs)

ISRAEL Air Force

Architect, Secured Telephony (6 yrs 4 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Tel-Aviv University

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Gimnasia Herzliya

Yaron Lavi

CTO

Israel34 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in leading R&D teams.
Expertise in cloud and big data technologies.
Strong focus on user experience and product design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Big Data expert with extensive experience in R&D leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Full Stack DevelopmentBig Data TechnologiesDevops ManagementTest Automation

Other Skills

ReactNode.jsBig DataAWSDevOpsAgileCloud TechnologiesSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingSystem ArchitectureSoftware EngineeringWeb ApplicationsSoftware DesignUser ExperienceMobile Devices

About

Experience

34 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs

Current Experience

Deel

CTO

May 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

Zira

VP R&D

Aug 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

Leading the entire R&D team and site manager. Complete responsibility and ownership of the architecture, product execution and delivery, and team-building of an amazing new product in the industrial IoT domain.

Jethro

R&D Director, Full Stack and DevOps

Feb 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Ra'anana, Israel

Manage GUI development and design using a wide range of web technologies, mainly React and Node.js, as well as plethora of 3rd party JavaScript libraries.
Development is tightly coupled with all main big data technology stack (Hive, Impala, Hadoop, HortonWorks, Jethro) and BI tools (tableau, Power BI, Microstrategy and more).
Visualization heavily uses AWS, and well as RPM/Docker for packaging; target platforms are Linux (RH, Centos, or AMI Linux).
Manage DevOps operations for design-code-test cycle (Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, GIT, SVN, AWS, Docker).

ReactNode.jsBig DataAWSDevOpsFull Stack Development+1

Applied materials

Head of DevOps and Test Automation

Aug 2016 – Mar 2017 · 7 mos · Rehovot, HaMerkaz (Central) District, Israel

Manages all DevOps activities (development and support), and all system test automation teams (5 teams, 30 people in total).
Leading DevOps and Test Automation modernization across R&D, both in processes and IT levels,using DevOps tools for orchestration (Jenkins, Anthill), build systems (msbuild, gradle, BS), source control (RTC, TFS, GIT), artifact repositories (Nexus, artifactory), continuous processes (CI and CD), testing frameworks and methodologies (TestNG, NUnit, Junit, JSystem), and more.
Assist leading agile transformation in R&D's ALM/work items tools using JIRA, JIRA Portfolio, Confluence, Microsoft TFS, IBM's RTC.
In charge of all build, test and integration processes, emphasizing performance, efficiency and reporting.
Cloud evangelist – public (AWS, Azure) and private (HP, VRA-based), IAAS and PAAS.

DevOpsTest AutomationAgileCloud TechnologiesDevOps Management

Amdocs

3 roles

Head of R&D, ACC Division

May 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Managing multiple software development teams and disciplines, using agile methodology across two countries.
Managing QA teams of the business unit.
Design, develop and deliver future versions of the unit's product suite.
Report to the unit's CEO.

R&D Director, Operability and Usability Architect

Feb 2012 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Managing software development teams using agile methodology across two countries.
work involved re-thinking of the architecture the product line, so that the usability of a very complex product could be made much more easy for the common user. I've managed, implemented and escorted the process until delivered.

R&D Director, GUI Development & Design Architect

Jun 2006 – Feb 2012 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Managed 3 GUI teams, in .NET technology, that form the core facade of our business unit software solutions. The software suite includes desktop and web applications, and is unique in terms of power and flexibility.
Managed the division's database administrators (DBA) for SQL server (4 DBAs), and Oracle DBAs (5 DBAs).
The role included data planning, archiving and modeling of large-scale applications that meet telecom-level requirements while supplying high-availability (RAC) and blazing-fast performance for the entire software solution.
In charge of the entire GUI suite of AMDOCS NBU product suitefor the telecom industry, including desktop and web applications, database and modeling
Includes configuration, billing, CRM, accounts receivable, invoicing and reporting applications.
State-of-art UX and GUI, using .NET and ASP.NET, HTML5 and CSS3.

Sigvalue

R&D Team Leader, GUI

May 2000 – Jun 2006 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Hod-Hasharon, ISRAEL

I was in charged of the entire GUI tools of SIgValue products. That included desktop and web applications, database and modeling, and team management.

Pelephone

R&D Team Leader

May 1998 – May 2000 · 2 yrs

I was in charge of a team developing GUI tools for the engineering department (~100 engineers), the main tool was a GIS application for cellular drive tests.