Leading the team of architects, mentoring the tech leads of the company, helping product managers and developers to find the best solutions from the business and the technical point of view.Achievements:- Facilitated the forum of the tech leads of the company, mentoring them and helping them mentor and empower developers.- Created the vision (blueprint) of the future architecture of the main company product, that would enable it to become a powerful, fully customizable HRIS platform serving sub-enterprise customers.- For two years published an internal weekly blog with posts discussing technical problems, development approaches, case studies and design dilemmas, with more than 100 subscribers towards the end.

Bridging the gap between the product requirements and the implementation, helping the product managers to understand the technical implications of product directions and the developers to understand the business flows. Suggesting and sometimes implementing solutions that achieve business needs on one hand and are elegant and maintainable, on the other.Achievements:- Identified the gap between the business model and the implementation in one of basic business modules of the system and slowly refactored the implementation and the data model to make it match the needs of the customers, while preserving the existing data integrity.- Designed and developed an abstract approach to handling the employee data in a generic way, allowing scalability and customizability of the system. Similar achievement in the area of handling the temporal data of employees.- Envisioned and developed the preliminary implementation of the framework modeling business objects of the system. This infrastructure is at the heart of two major functionalities in the product and the number keeps growing.- Developed and maintained several low level infrastructural components of the system.

Leading the vision of reworking the foundation of Kenshoo to make it robust, scalable, performant and intuitive to use. All this while continuously delivering to production.Achievements:- Envisioned, led and contributed to implementation of an abstract "persistence" layer for business entities. Orchestrated and completed the transition to it of one of the key entities.- Initiated and significantly advanced the project of modularization (untangling dependencies) of a 3M lines monolith.- Led and served as a major contributor to the development of a microservice targeted to replace an aspect of the monolith logic until its deployment to production and successful migration.

Optimizing the performance and robustness of some of the system critical flows.Achievements:- Improved the system build time and the product startup time. Contributed to Gradle and Spring projects in the process of doing this- Planned and led the refactoring of one of the data layers of the system to eliminate numerous stability issues. This included gradual data upgrades done in a continuous deployment environment- Designed and led the considerable performance improvement (up to x10) of one of the major system processes

Principal engineer on the Architecture Team.Maintaining infrastructure components of the application.Analyzing and solving scalability and performance problems of the product.Being part of the company effort to build a new cloud architecture.Achievements:- Tackled numerous performance issues and bottlenecks- Implemented a clustering messaging infrastructure replacing a previously malfunctioning solution- In the cloud project, came up with the way to develop application that is by order of magnitude faster and leaner than the alternative - the new way has become the mainstream in a matter of weeks.- Working remotely as the only non-US based member of a west-coast based team and being considered a key contributor

System Engineer in ALM (formerly QC) project platform group.Focus on "non-functional requirements" of the product - performance, scalability, maintainability, supportability, ease of deployment etc.In addition promote and develop healthy and effective software engineering practices - continuous integration, testing, ease of development etc.Achievements:- Establishment of working CI and setting an example of how CI should be developed.- Streamlined the development cycle by re-engineering system components to make the system more developer-friendly.

System architect of the HP Universal CMDB product.Responsible for the product technical architecture and the quality of the development environment.Achievements:- Change of the product architecture for shortening the development cycle, simplifying the product installation and maintenance and allowing embedding of the product as a technology into other products- Streamlining of the build process to enable faster development with less errors- Establishing a continuous integration process, including setup and tuning of CI environment and product build lifecycle

Developer in the core team of HP Universal CMDB product.- Initiation and development of the external API of the product. Created a mechanism for dynamic downloading of the client-side code (automatic "upgrade") without imposing any requirements on the client. Established high standards for client-side API readability, simplicity and ease of use.- Various improvents of the product infrastructure.

Development of infrastructural features of the Mercury Quality Center product back-end. Analysis and solution of performance problems in the application server and the database.

Development of the Java Add-In for Mercury WinRunner and Quick Test Professional.Achievements:- Establishment of a concept of a new Add-In for testing Oracle Applications framework- Modification of the product infrastructure to automatically support any JDK version using the dynamic instrumentation technology

Founder of the new generation of software for several tools manufactured by Applied Materials.Achievements:- Inception of a new project, validation of the Java technology (not widely acceptable at the time).- Forming of an energetic and highly motivated team - prior to leaving co-managed a team of 12 developers.- Leading the project to the production stage - the project's codebase now serves several products manufactured by the company.

Development of application components, software system engineering of the supplied product.Replacement of SCM in use by ClearCase - establishment of development methodologies, development of supporting scripts.