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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Managing multiple teams within the Reuters Editorial Tools space, leading the development and support of web applications and backend services for editorial users and various teams across Reuters. Responsible for hiring new talent across Reuters Technology and actively participating in architecture reviews and design decisions across multiple teams.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Leading a cross-regional software development team responsible for API development and the Reuters Data Platform, emphasizing automated content generation and providing data ingestion and backend services for various News Technology applications. Supervising processes such as troubleshooting and deployments.Technology Stack: AWS, Node.js, Java.

Toronto, Canada Area

Leading a cross-regional team of software engineers to provide solutions for Reuters' news editorial platforms. Responsible for the design, implementation, review, and delivery of various solutions, including the development of RESTful APIs and data processing and analysis. The solutions are cloud-native on AWS, utilizing infrastructure such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, and RDS Aurora.Languages: Node.js, Java, Scala, PythonDatabases: MySQL, DynamoDB.

Designed and developed L2/L3 switching devices with integrated security solutions.Created architecture designs for Network Operating System protocols in stacking solutions.Developed architectural designs for SDN support, emphasizing the OpenFlow protocol.Knowledgeable in open-source NOS projects, including OpenSwitch and Flexswitch.

Toronto, Canada Area

Worked across various levels of Cisco routers software development, including Cisco IOS, control place and data plane.Extended the Flexible NetFlow traffic monitoring feature on the ASR920 router and implemented new control plane capabilities in Cisco IOS software.Coordinated development and integration of this feature with the platform team.Supported customer deployments and addressed issues to ensure successful project implementation.

Netanya Area, Israel

Led a proof of concept to enhance performance for application-level classification, monitoring, and traffic control (AVC).Designed and implemented interoperability of AVC with GetVPN on Cisco ASR1000 series routers.Served as scrum master, guiding the team through the software development lifecycle.Oversaw the software testing team during functional and system test cycles, ensuring effective feature implementation.Prepared and reviewed Software Design Specifications, Functional Specifications, and Test Plan documents.Resolved customer cases related to the Flexible NetFlow (FNF) feature across various Cisco platforms.

Netanya Area, Israel

Improved ASR1000 Flexible Netflow and Application Visibility and Control debuggability in accordance with Cisco standards. Developed Account on resolution feature for Cisco Packet Processor (CPP). This provided improved traffic and application monitoring and reduced number of reports with unrecognized traffic.Managed Multilink Frame-Relay (MLFR) development team (5 people). Defined software requirements and design, hardware requirements and testing procedures.Developed VRF-Aware Service Interface (VASI) on ASR1000 routers. This enabled controlled packet flow between different routing domains.Implemented HTTP inspection control path on ASR1000 routers.GSR Multi Service Blade firewall feature uCode development and customer support.

Netanya Area, Israel

Worked on developing a web-based BPM application and a Time and Attendance system. The development environment included Windows and PROGRESS software products, such as Webspeed, OpenEdge programming language, and database management, along with SourceSafe, VB6, VB.NET, SQL, HTML, and JavaScript.Defined and deployed new forms for the BPM application based on customer requirements.Developed interfaces to external systems, including MFGPro.Led customer deployments and tutorials, facilitating quick adoption of the application by users and administrators.Oversaw multi-site application upgrades and supervised the adoption of the multi-site application.Collaborated closely with customers of the Time and Attendance web-based application to gather new requirements and implement interfaces, reports, and application features.