Bio
Experience
Beit Hatfutsot - The museum of the Jewish people
Aug 2015 -
Software Architect
- Leading R&D of the internet presence of Beit-Hatfuitsot archives
- Designing an API and developing a flask server
- Training a newbie on the angular fronend
- Using my network to hire great freelancers
- Releasing the code on github and fostering a community
OwnerListens Inc
June 2015 - August 2015
Full Stack Developer
- Refactor DevOPS
- Developing features
- Fixing Bugs
The Public Knowledge Workshop (non-profit)
January 2011 -
Co-Founder and General Secretary (volunteer)
- Chose the name and personal mission statement
- Recruited the founders
- Organized weekly meetings and a couple of Hackathons
- Started the Docs
- Welcoming new volunteers and helping them find them a project
- Mentor project leaders
- Bought the beer
Open Knesset - an open-source project
August 2009 -
Co-Founder and Developer (volunteer)
- Lead UI/UX design and development
- Coordinating a growing community of coders, designers and activists
- Organizing weekly development meetings and hackathons
- Convincing Knesset officials to improve their data interfaces
- Working as liaison with Members of the Knesset and Knesset officials
- Buying Beer
PyWeb-IL - Israeli python web developers
August 2008 -
Co-Founder (volunteer)
- Co-founded a thriving community of Python web developers in Israel
- Scheduled monthly meetings where the members share their expertise
- Promoting Python, Django and Open Source
Aqua Software - lab orchestration
July 2007 - August 2008
Chairman of the board of directors
- Helped formulate Aqua's vision and strategy.
- Helped Aqua spin off their software licensing business to a new company - Ignis Software
- Helped Aqua realign its executive team
- Helped Aqua explore M&A opportunities and effort that led to a sale of the majority of stocks to Ramdor in August 2009
Tuzig LTD - Simplifying digital life
January 2006 - February 2007
Co-Founder & Chairman
- co-founded and led product development
- ran around in circles
- Closed the company down
Shunra Software LTD
October 1997 - August 2005
Co-Founder and CEO
- co-founded and led Shunra, starting with “The Cloud” the first software WAN emulator, through 7 years of profitable growth reaching 60 employees and $10MM in yearly sales
- Design and coded a software based WAN emulation - first as a Windows NT driver and later as a linux kernel module
- Designed a unique Visio based user interface that customers love
- In 2000-2003 relocated to NYC to head the US based sales and marketing team
- In 2004 led Shunra's first round of $11.5MM
Rad Advanced Networks
January 1993 - October 1997
Programmer and Team Leader
- Developed a Macintosh software based network accelerator
- Used 68K assembler and dis-assembly to hack system 7.5
- Part of a research team developing a rate control mechanism to replace TCP/IP standard rate control
- Led a team of two developers porting the new protocol to Solaris and Windows
Israeli Air Force
June 1988 - August 1992
Programmer and First Sargent
- Maintained a complex real-time system written in Fortran
- Developed and maintained a data entry system based on unix System V.2
- Ported the above system to HP-UX and merged with an Ada based mission planning system
Education
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
1995-1997 Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Humanities
Interests
- ּSystem Hacking
- Coding
- Reading
- Travel
- History
Languages
- Hebrew
- English