Resume

I’m a full-stack developer and devops enthusiast passionate about improving the flexibility, stability, and quality of products using industry best practices, such as automated, developer-written testing, peer reviews, and build/release automation.

Relevant Experience

Senior Full-stack Developer, SAP, Tel Aviv Israel— 2022-2023 (corporate-wide layoff)

  • Troubleshot and eliminated costly race-conditions across multiple golang microservices, refactoring code to assure correctness and testability
  • Significantly reduced QA resources by re-implementing online loyalty app using test-driven-development techniques in React & TypeScript
  • Decreased development/QA churn for loyalty app by migrating React code-base to TypeScript

Senior Full-stack Developer, Mountainpasstech, Jerusalem Israel— 2019-2022

  • Opened communication channels to high-value investors by leading development of a native app in React Native for OurCrowd
  • Decreased time-to-market for a fintech mobile app by introducing disciplined peer code reviews, TypeScript, test-driven development, and build pipelines
  • Stabilized financial software by migrating to a containerized Django/Postgres service

Software/devops Engineer, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland USA — 2006-2019

  • Decreased content “go-live” time by developing a Django-based CMS on top of GitHub APIs
  • Facilitated monitoring of high-traffic site (pubmed.gov) by developing custom JavaScript logging API using Node.js
  • Improved developer efficiency and application reliability by designing TeamCity CI/CD pipeline templates

Content Manager, Nextel/Sprint, Reston, Virginia USA — 2003-2006

Expanded bilingual cell phone service market by localizing web content from English to Spanish

QA Engineer, Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA — 1998-2000

Broadened market for graphic arts software by leading user-interface localization team

Translator, Accent on Languages, Berkeley California USA — 2001-2003

Developed and maintained bilingual dictionary in concert with the Drug Enforcement Agency

Skills

Bash, CSS, Django, Docker, Functional programming, Git, Golang, Google Cloud, HTML, gRPC, JavaScript, Jest, Kubernetes, Linux, MySQL, Node.js, Postgres, Python, React, Redux, React Native, Rust (learning), Selenium, Test-driven-development, TypeScript

Education

  • lithespeed, Herndon, VA — Agile Scrum master Certification — 2012
  • San Francisco University — Technical and requirements writing — 2001
  • Boston University, Boston, MA — International Relations — 2003
  • University of Colorado, Boulder, CO — Spanish Language and Literature — 1995