Evalon is a boutique real estate investment firm, specializing in multi-family syndications, with ~$80M AUM

Snowy Peak Security provides hands-on pragmatic security consulting for startups and enterprises.Specializing in:- Cloud fortification (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)- Software Development Security Practices- Web Server Configuration- Database Server Configuration- Security Policies/Documentation- Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Policies/Documentation

In this role responsible for setting Snyk's global alliances strategy and partnerships.Mastermind behind the industry leading deep partnerships and integrations with Docker (Docker Desktop), Atlassian (Bitbucket), Datadog, Dynatrace and othersIn addition, part of Snyk's pioneering in corporate development

Joined Snyk to start our US operations. Hired first sales and solutions engineers. Closed early landmark customers during first year: Google, Salesforce, Disney, Digital Ocean, New Relic, Auth0, Skyscanner... some of which became 7 figure customers over time.Built the business development team from scratch, and led Snyk Intel into a market leading OEM strategy with licensing partners in AWS, IBM, Datadog, Tenable, Trend Micro, Linux Foundation, Red Hat, Akamai, Rapid7Instrumental in the early days shaping pricing and product strategy.

Openbucks built the first of a kind award winning prepaid distribution network, allowing consumers to pay online using gift cards of major retailers. Product was nominated by Visa as best prepaid payment in 2015. See here: http://www.openbucks.com/#award_winningIn this role built a processing platform from scratch, processing nearly $20MM of prepaid transactions a year. The platform includes enterprise grade real time processing, industry leading anti-fraud and risk management tools, analytics, visualization tools, invoicing, billing, onboarding and the rest of the nuts and bolts. The platform is 7x certified with FirstData, InComm, Amazon Payments, SVS (Stored Value Systems), Vantiv (Firth Third Bank), TDS (Topps Digital Services), ValueAccess. As a first phase, given tight constraints, took the company from zero to profitability with 3 engineers or less. Wrote about the meticulous attention to quality, process and culture required to achieve it: http://threeengineersorless.comAs a second phase spearheaded the company's scale up and globalization and built development, support and system administration teams from scratch in Ukraine, Philippines and Romania.Technologies: PHP, AngularJS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Postgres, Apache, Linux

Manage the development of PayPal's Mobile Payments Library (MPL). This SDK lets mobile app developers integrate PayPal into their apps in less than 5 minutes. They can then instantaneously accept payments for the goods and services their apps provide. See the product here: www.x.com/mplSDK is supported in multiple platforms: iOS, Android, BlackBerry.In this role: build the team, manage the development and delivery, evangelize the product. Special technical focus on scalability, security, cross platform design and building spectacular APIs and user experiences which work great out of the box.

In this role, exercise the so-tricky corporate skill of Influence-without-authority, as I was chartered to spearhead PayPal's Risk Department comprehensive overhaul of how risk models are built, trained, analyzed and deployed. This endeavor required aligning the interests and getting the buy-in of Risk Product, Risk Development, InfoSec, Release Engineering, DevOps, Procurement and PayPal's Federated Corporate Architecture.For this purpose, architect, design and advocate one of the most ambitious decisioning platforms constructed by PayPal’s risk department. The platform replaces disparate processes and teams with an Integrated Decisioning Infrastructure, hence its name IDI. IDI enables building and executing sophisticated fraud detection algorithms, modeling fraudulent behavioral modus operandi, and statistically identifying fraud trends. It revolutionized the way teams collaborate and projects are developed and ultimately reduced the time-to-market of risk solutions from 6-9 months to 1-2 months.One of two founders of the Risk department’s architecture team. Define and disseminate roles, responsibilities, engagement policies and career path for architects inside the department.

Responsible for overseeing the integration of PayPal Israel’s (FraudSciences) technology into PayPal. Tasked with remediating problems and mitigating risks arising from the integration.Lead the process of defining PayPal Israel’s long term technology roadmap and assimilation plan.Managed and executed a quick turn-around, high yielding project which improves the efficiency of PayPal’s fraud queues. The project has been generating hundreds of thousands of dollars per month in fraud loss savings since going live.

Team leader of the “Machine Learning” team, responsible for advanced algorithms related to automatic fraud detection.Architected and coded the automated fraud detection system at the center of the risk management engine. The engine was based on an improved Bayesian classification learning technique (AODE), and was capable of outperforming most human fraud analysts, and was the reason for the acquisition of FraudSciences by PayPal.Created and implemented an R&D technology forum meant to foster cross-pollination between the company's technology teams.Tutored and mentored on machine learning, data mining and information theory.

- Researched and developed sophisticated probable and technological fraud indicators.- Developed a company patented realtime SSL/TLS stack analyzer which detects use of proxies.- Technologies: Perl, MySQL, Apache, Linux, C++, HTML, JS, CSS, AJAX, Whois/RWhois, HTTP, SSL/TLS, DNS

Teacher in one of the army's elite Intelligence academies.Teaching :1. Probability and Statistics (University Grade)2. Enhanced Algorithmic Development and optimizations for fast running code

SofaWare is a subsidiary of Checkpoint- Part of the embedded VPN team.- Initiated and led the migration from C to C++ code.- Provided solutions for better memory management on the embedded appliance.- Technologies: C/C++, VPN, IPSec, Embedded, Ethereal

- Invented and implemented a patent pending optimization algorithm for allocating database resources over database server clusters. The algorithm uses both heuristic and deterministic approaches to solve the allocation problem, providing excellent performance and memory utilization.- Technologies: C/C++, Oracle, MySQL, SNMP, HPOV