Resume

Building LeanCustoms for EU customs in a fast-paced startup. Complete ownership of development process.

• Developing an internal B2B system to manage Customs processes from scratch.
• Working in close collaboration with CTO & Co-Founders/Operations on implementation of customs processes and integrating with customs governmental offices.
• Implemented a new flow to improve customer onboarding, drastically decreasing the amount of manual work for operations.

Was a member of a small, greenfield and experimental product team that grew fast, and became one of the main offerings of the company.

• Designed, architecture, and developed an internal system from scratch
• Developed and optimized existing solutions that is part of Forter’s main offering
• Migrated a legacy system from Python to Node while optimizing for high load
• Introduced improvements into development cycles, as well as CI/CD pipeline
• Drafted and promoted team conventions

Stepped down from Tech Lead responsibilities in order to take leadership of crucial Product feature.

• Provided best-in-class Design Review (considered to this day by many in TLV site as the Gold Standard for design reviews)
• Integrated in a different team in order to collaborate and contribute code in an unfamiliar service, which became the foundation for the feature
• Collaborated with DevOps in order to provision, create and onboard AWS resources that were not used previously in TLV office
• Took ownership to develop the feature end-to-end including Frontend (as a Backend only developer) in order to grow and familiarize myself with the Frontend of my product

Later on during the year, handed off the feature to a different developer in order to focus on a product that solves the #1 pain point of the organization.

• Was the main technical point and sole Backend developer
• Was responsible for tight collaboration with PMs, Engineering Managers and other developers, while contributing code to a team that located in US

• Cooperated with other Tech Leads on best practices for development
• Supported team members in solving inter team blocks
• Established good development practices
• Worked with each engineer in the team to understand their pain points in development in order to build and execute growth and development plan
• Took active part and provided guidance for Design Reviews

• Implemented microservices architecture in a heavy test based code with fast release cycles
• Was responsible for writing design reviews. Participated and provided feedback on other teams’ design reviews
• Took active part in defining products architecture
• Successfully collaborated with Product Managers on feature definitions. Worked together with Front-end and Mobile teams on integrations, with Architect on defining best engineering solutions
• Guided and mentored other developers as well as on-boarded newly hired developers
• Conducted phone / on site technical interviews. Took ownership on reshaping and improving them
• Set testing standards that were adopted by the team and presented the guidelines to entire TLV RnD
• Pushed the switch to SQS/SNS that caused better and more reliable async task processing
• Actively participated and presented in internal knowledge sharing sessions

Designed and implemented customer facing service (backend only) from scratch.

After Company cut 90% of employees, stayed to consult and support Keepgo during very challenging period.

• Migrated legacy systems to new technologies and optimized for high load
• Provided technical feedback, vision and direction for the product

Was a member of a team working on Backend, mainly API and Admin Panel. Fast release cycle.

• Introduced & implemented real time analytics and monitoring systems
• Worked on projects shared across all team members and led external API systems critical project
• Introduced & implemented full test coverage methodology

Technical Lead of Product Management System for hotels reservations.

Administrative Part: Provided technical feedback; Defined development cycles; Managed development team; Performed code reviews.

Technical Part: Guided critical technical decisions; Developed efficient caching mechanisms, high-load system, external API access; Defined and developed UI and UX.

• Developed export mechanism to transfer in house data to external systems such as: Third party providers, Accounting systems
• Designed and developed Business Intelligence Analytics and Accounting systems
• Introduced usage of PHP composer and JavaScript modules, modern PHP5.5 code standards, test coverage, Domain Driven Design

Developed and maintained PHP Facebook application

Developed and maintained back-end and front-end.

Automation of SEO scripts.