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Tel Aviv District, Israel

Tel Aviv District, Israel

• Led a team of 4 Developers, responsible for managing the core “Review” entity. Oversaw the business logic, API layer, attributes, data structure, data pipelines, and storage solutions for reviews, ensuring data.
• Envisioned and led my team to create the 'UGC View Layer,' an ambitious project that involved that involved continuously writing and aggregating real-time data from 30 different tables to ElasticSearch and Kafka using.
• Successfully led a massive and strategic project to establish a two-way syndication process of reviews between Shopify and Yotpo, coordinating efforts across 6 teams and domains including my own. This initiative.
• Reduced team overhead and improved quality of life by implementing automated systems such as retry mechanisms, organizing production alerts, reevaluating response strategies, and establishing clear expectations and.
• Experienced in recruiting and cultivating talent, with a proven track record of identifying and hiring skilled professionals while fostering their growth through mentorship and professional development initiatives.

Tel Aviv District, Israel

• Responsible for overseeing design reviews, dailies, sprint plannings and retrospectives, while mentoring a team of 5.
• Led, designed, and executed crucial projects focused on high-scale implementation, leveraging Java, micro-services architecture, data processing, streaming, and infrastructure technologies such as Apache Flink/Spark.
• Significantly reduced network traffic, production incidents and cost for our group, and helped establish clear organizational ownership boundaries by leading the redistribution and arrangement of network traffic.
• Optimized production environments by introducing various enhancements and efficiency measures, leveraging technologies such as Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, ELK stack for log management and analytics, Nginx.
• Was heavily involved in maintenance of key production components such as the group’s AWS RDS and MSK (AWS managed Kafka cluster). Handled incidents, optimizations and coordinated with AWS solution engineers.

Tel Aviv District, Israel

• Developed robust backend systems primarily using Java (Spring Framework) and Ruby on Rails within a micro-services architecture, leveraging various sync and async systems for communication.
• Achieved a significant reduction in client-facing page load times and alleviated the load on our database and API layers by implementing a high-scale, scheduled ETL process. This process aggregated and indexed large.
• Extensive experience with SQL for relational databases, and proficiency in MongoDB and ElasticSearch for NoSQL data storage solutions.

Tel Aviv District, Israel

• Part of a core team managing an on-demand staging environment system for the entire R&D department. Played a pivotal role in implementing a robust CI/CD infrastructure, utilizing Docker, Jenkins, Nomad, and GoLang.