Reversim Summit 2016

Ran Levi

מהנדס, סופר, יזם ופודקאסטר. נ+3, בן 41

כתב שלושה ספרים בתחום ההיסטוריה של הטכנולוגיה, האחרון שבהם - 'קרב מוחות: על ההיסטוריה הזדונית של הוירוסים למחשב'.

כותב ומגיש את 'עושים היסטוריה', הפודקאסט הישראלי המואזן ביותר.

מייסד של שתי חברות בתחום הניו-מדיה והפודקאסטים.

Arik Fraimovich

Problem Solver. Creative Geek.

In the past years, I have been dealing with all aspects of data -- from how to load it properly and in scale and then how to present it to the end users. In the process I've created Re:dash, an open source data collaboration platform, that helps organizations democratize their data access.

These days I'm working hard on creating a sustainable business around Re:dash.

Yuval Samet

A product dude, currently discovering social businesses in Israel

Klarna is a european bank focused on making ecommerce extremely smooth. I joined Klarna in January 2011 when Analyzd, a company I co founded, was acquired. During the last 5 years I served in different roles: Built Klarna TLV together with Uri Nativ and team, built the product group as CPO and lately as the CTO.

I am a product manager and entrepreneur at heart with a great passion for leading small and big product development communities. I am currently on a journey to start social businesses in Israel, to eradicate poverty with technology.

Itay Maman

Leading an infrastructure team at google + Lecturer (Technion/Computer-Science)

Leading an engineering team at Google which is responsible responsible for the infrastructure of the "New Google Sites". Teaches Software Design at the Technion. Holds a Ph.D. in the area of code analysis and programming language design from the Technion.

Used to believe that every program can be made simpler by adding just one more bit of static typing but now uses Node whenever he can.

Believes that the next big language will have curly braces.

Thinks that Mongo > Couch, Java > Scala, Testing > Implementation and that Morale > Design

Erez Lotan

Chief Architect @Kesnhoo

Software Craftsman, Agile Coach and Development Manager.

Currently Chief Architect at Kenshoo, and prior to that led multi-disciplinary delivery teams at Kenshoo and Orbitz.

I equally enjoy building software and working with people, and learned that the right solution to almost any problem is a great team. Such teams emerge from diverse, cohesive and open culture.

Hadar Davidovich

Hadar is leading the back-end engineering team at Ravello Systems from the early days, where a new cloud application hypervisor is being developed. Prior to joining Ravello, Hadar was a software engineer at VMware and B-Hive Networks (acquired by VMware). Prior to that, she had served in an elite technological unit in the Israeli intelligence corps. Hadar holds a M.Sc in Mathematics from Bar-Ilan University, and is the proud mother of 3.

Hagai Levin

Senior Software Engineer at WeWork

I'm a senior software engineer at WeWork. Previously a software engineer, Scrum master and team lead at Klarna and the IDF. I'm interested in Scrum and Agile software development and how people work together. You can find my thoughts on these topics in my blog: https://medium.com/@hagailevin.

Tal Kol

Mobile Apps Lead Architect in Wix.com

Full-stack developer, specializing in native mobile development for iOS and Android. My latest passion is React Native. Currently leading the architecture for Wix.com™s native mobile efforts. Before Wix I™ve been an entrepreneur for 7 years and co-founded two startups. The latter, Appixia, a platform for DIY native mobile app generation, was acquired by Wix in 2014.

Eyal Gruss

Machine learning researcher and digital artist

Dr. Eyal Gruss is a machine learning researcher and consultant, with experience in algotrading, cybersecurity, chemometry, adtech, NLP and computer vision. Eyal is a Talpiot graduate and did his PhD in theoretical physics. He is also a digital artist, creating interactive installations and computer generated art.

Yonatan Mevorach

I am a technical lead at Sears Israel. My expertise is in frontend technologies, and my passion is creating high-end, quality, beautiful and performant web applications.

With 9 years of experience, I'm a thought leader in the latency and web performance domain, making ShopYourWay one of the fastest e-commerce mWeb sites in the world.

I'm also an OSS contributor, blogger, active member of the local tech meetup scene,

...and yet I'm still introduced to new employees as œthe Javascript guy".

Michal Tirosh

HR @ Klarna Tel Aviv

In the last few years I've been working as a part of the HR team, in charge of recruiting for Klarna Tel Aviv's extraordinary gang.

I have a strong passion for understanding what drives employees and what makes them come to work with a smile on their faces.

Strongly believe that people, culture and diversity are the key to companies success.

Working hard on making it our reality at Klarna Tel Aviv.

Oren Ellenbogen

Spending most of my time building a robust and scalable team, so that the team can spend their time building robust and scalable software.

Currently VP Engineering at Forter, where we're catching fraudsters online (top 500 eCommerce retailers). As hobbies, Oren curates the successful newsletter SoftwareLeadWeekly (http://softwareleadweekly.com) and author of Leading Snowflakes (http://leadingsnowflakes.com).

Shai Kfir

Helping First Time managers overcome the Dunning-Kruger effect

Shai Kfir has been a developer for 20 years and a manager for 5. Shai also serves as a mentor for new managers and co-facilitates a workshop for new managers at Wix called œManagement 101.

Shai runs a blog about about management and leadership, and a facebook page where he shares his insights and inspiring resources from the interwebs.

Sasha Goldshtein

CTO at Sela Group

Sasha Goldshtein is the CTO of Sela Group, a Microsoft C# MVP and Azure MRS, a Pluralsight author, and an international consultant and trainer. Sasha is the author of two books, a prolific blogger and open source contributor, and author of numerous training courses. His consulting work revolves mainly around distributed architecture, production debugging and performance diagnostics, and mobile application development.

Joey Feldberg

The future is concurrent

Long time developer with plenty of experience with high-scale concurrent systems.

Michal Brosh

Talent Aquisition Lead, HPE Israel

I am a Talent Acquisition lead at HPE Israel, where I help people build meaningful, exceptional and exciting careers with HPE. With an overall of 10 years of HR experience with SW companies, in Israel and the UK, I have a true passion for making organizations, teams and leaders work better. I also have an an MBA in Organizational Behavior and a B.Sc in Life science from Ben Gurion University.

Adi Shacham-Shavit

VP Engineering, AppsFlyer

Boris Kozorovitzky

Sr. Software developer @ Perion

Currently working as a full stack JavaScript developer at Undertone (Perion) doing a Node.js based stack on the server and a React based stack on the client. Previously worked as a developer and a system architect for HPE LoadRunner with a variety of both client side and server side technologies both web and desktop.

Guy Doulberg

Software engineer and architect

I am a software engineer who gets excited about software and about engineering software,

I held several position as: a developer, an architect and a team leader.

I use software in the big data business and ad-tech business.

In the last couple of years I was working at Perion.

Recently I joined Satellogic

Oren Rubin

CEO at Testim.io

Oren is the CEO of Testim.io with over 19 years of experience in the software industry (IBM, Wix, Cadence, Applitools, and Testim.io) including the development of 3 test-related products.

Although being a busy entrepreneur, Oren is a community activist and a Selenium advocate which always finds time to give back to the community:

He is the co-organizing of the Israeli Google Developer Group meetup, Selenium-Israel meetup, The Ember.js meetup.

He taught Web Development course at the Technion, and mentors at the Google Launchpad.

Shlomi Zadok

Creative

A winemaker turn to engineer. Open source kind of guy

Yuval Kaminka

Co-Founder and CEO of JoyTunes, making it possible for anyone to learn to play a musical instrument.

Co-Founder and CEO of JoyTunes, making it possible for anyone to learn to play a musical instrument and chosen by Apple as one of the best of 2015.

MSc. in Computer Science and Computational Neuroscience at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Yoni Tsafir

JoyTunes, Mobile & Beer

iOS Dev Team Leader @ JoyTunes

Co-host @ Mobile & Beer Podcast

Moran Shimron

Director, Product Management

6 years ago, I discovered my real passion. After 10 years as a developer, I understood that what I really love doing is to create cool products that are simple to use and solves customer™s problems and to do that within the boundaries of timeline and resources.

I was a UX designer for a year and then became a product manager. After a few years in a product manager role, I was asked to lead product managers in Kenshoo. I am now taking part of strategic discussions, building roadmap, mentoring junior PMs, daily prioritization, communication with AMs, Sales, Clients, Dev, QA, UX and all other stake holders.

I am one of the lucky ones who got the chance to do something they love and have passion for.

Inbal Gilai

Software team leader at Klarna with over eight years of software development experience, and co-founder of Rails Girls TLV workshops.

Shaked Bar

Algorithm Engineer @ Outbrain

Software and Algorithm Engineer with 10 years of experience, Technion (BSc) and IDC (MSc) graduate.

Joined Sphere's algorithms team at Outbrain this year, focusing on personalized recommendations and lately on content chat bots.

Previously worked at IBM R&D labs and served for 6 years at 8200.

Eyal Allweil

Big Data Developer at PayPal

Committer and PPMC member at Apache DataFu.

Roi Ezra

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Software Engineer @ Intel Cloud Development and Entrepreneur.

Backend developer and Full Stack with 10 years of experience.

Love open source :)

Boaz Gaon

CEO at Wisdo.com. Wisdo helps people take on life™s greatest challenges by equipping them with wisdom from those who have been there.

15 years of quality content production and management, in Israel, the UK and the US. 10 years of storytelling to stage and screen. 5 years of activism and 2 years of founding and managing Wisdo where I learned that writing code is like writing art. In many aspects, it's also as biographical and revealing.

Nati Cohen

Production Engineer @ SimilarWeb

Nati Cohen is a Production Engineer at SimilarWeb, fighting manual labor with code and vengeance. Previous experience includes: operations consulting, software development, *nix administration and security research in the Intelligence corps as well as in multiple startup companies.

Yonatan Maman

VP R&D @ Outbrain

Doing software starting from the happy days of Atari XL.

After a few pivots working for large enterprises, I have joined Outbrain. As VP of R&D I focus on building new technologies, in high quality at scale.

Allon Mureinik

A software engineering manager who likes nothing more than when his employees prove him wrong.

Allon Mureinik manages Red Hat Virtualization's Storage R&D Team.

In his spare time he's interested in unit testing, static code analysis and seeing how far databases will bend before they break.

Lior Bar-On

Chief.Architect@Gett, A Builder, A Blogger (http://www.softwarearchiblog.com/)

Chief Architect @ Gett

Architect @ Imperva

Architect @ SAP

Developer @ SAP / NICE

A Techie guy...

David Gruzman

Big data geek

Software developer and architect. Last 5 years working in area of big data and machine learning. Top 10 contributor on hadoop in StarckOverflow. Currently I am leading www.nestlogic.com - startup working on anomaly detection in big data sets.

Noam Elfanbaum

Backend developer @Cloudlock

I am interested in various fields of software development, currently I mostly develop web applications server side. Python and Linux are my favorite! I also really enjoy teaching programming classes, meditation, philosophy and sports.

Check out my blog at noamelf.com for more details.

Itamar Syn-Hershko

Sr Software Developer @ Forter

I'm a search technologies, distributed systems and architecture expert.

Apache Lucene.NET committer and PMC member, Elasticsearch Consulting Partner, Microsoft MVP and today work as a software engineer at Forter - catching e-commerce fraudsters in real-time.

Tamir Dresher

Architect @ CodeValue, Ruppin Academic Center Lecturer

Tamir Dresher is a Senior Architect at CodeValue - one of the leading software companies in Israel and the home of œOzCode, the magical debugging tool.

Tamir is a technology pioneer that leads software development projects from inception, through building the proper architecture and, of course, the joy of coding! Tamir works on both large-scale enterprise applications and cutting edge startups.

He is a prominent member of Israel™s Microsoft developers community and the author of the book œReactive Extensions in .NET (published by Manning).

Tamir loves teaching as much as he loves programming, and enjoys teaching software engineering to students at the Ruppin Academic Center.

You can read about his coding adventures in his blog at www.tamirdresher.com.

Nir Nahum

CTO @ WalkMe

I have been programming since I was 13. For the past five years I have been building and leading the amazing WalkMe product and team.

Yulia Trakhtenberg

Data Team leader at AppsFlyer

More than 15 years of experience in software development (both Back-end and Front-end), currently in love with Big Data.

Iftach Bar

Developer

Iftach helps early stage startups deal with tough challenges, some technological and some just startup related. Architecture, scale, team building, team management and prioritisation.

Iftach also loves teaching, lecturing and creating state of the art training programs.

Avishai Ish-Shalom

Avishai Ish-Shalom is a veteran Ops and a survivor of many production skirmishes. Avishai helps companies deal with web era operations and scale as an independent consultant. In his spare time Avishai is spreading weird ideas and conspiracy theories such as DevOps.

Kaleb Loosbrock

Product Designer & Post-It Noter Extraordinaire

Kaleb is a UX Researcher & Strategist at Israel based Kenshoo. He™s conducted hundreds of user interviews and usability tests across a myriad of products and services. From graphic designing for a non-profit in Chicago to launching a sexy start-up airline in San Francisco and now working for global Israeli software company, he™s crafted an eclectic background in marketing, product management, user experience, research and analytics.

Dov Murik

Interested in programming languages, human languages, and Grateful Dead music, Dov is now a senior software developer in IBM.

Ariel M. Moskovich

Lead DevOps AppsFlyer

Currently Lead DevOps at Appsflyer,building and running large scale production, before that worked as a Senior Ops engineer at Outbrain and Orbitz

Uri Shamay

Mechanical-Sympathy junky

I am a computer geek and Mechanical-Sympathy junky. I live and breathe computers and programming since the age of 9. I lead the infrastructure development in the Israeli startup Cotendo. After it was acquired by Akamai, I became a principal lead on next generation internet infrastructure. Today I am lead developer at Juno, a new fresh approach to ride sharing - building services for millions of users. I am also a co-founder of Java.IL, and an open source contributor.

My favorite hobby: drinking coffee in the morning with the smell of CPU & GPU after a long night's computation cycle.

http://cmpxchg16.me

Shem Magnezi

Senior Android developer @MyRoll (Acquired by AVG)

Shem has been playing with mobile in the past 4 years. Shem has almost a decade of experience in development in a variety of domains: client and server side, real-time systems, Big Data and mobile. He was the first employee of MyRoll (acquired by AVG), where he designed and developed the platform for the app in both iOS and Android.

Shem thinks programming should be nothing but fun! He loves football and is a Maccabi Tel-Aviv fanatic.

Limor Lahiani

Passionate about people and technology

Engineering Manager, Partner Catalyst Israel, Microsoft.

Curious and passionate about people and technology. I manage a team of software engineers, which engages with industry thought leaders to work through their toughest technical challenges. Our team shares the work with the developers' community, in the form of open sourcing our solutions and sharing our learning in meetups and conferences. I joined Microsoft more than 8 years ago, after graduating my PhD in computer Science, in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks. I first joined the innovation Labs as a software engineer and then managed incubation and product engineering teams. which shipped web and mobile applications.

I'm an amateur maker who builds electronic art installations such as Laser Harp, Sound Fountain and Water Printer. I do my best to encourage young female students to follow curiosity and pursue their passion for technology and science.

I graduated the Executive Program at Singularity University and since then, inspired to talk about how technology spirituality are related, and how technology can be used as a tool for spiritual growth and self-development.

Nir Rubinstein

Chief Architect @ AppsFlyer

I am a multidisciplinary software enthusiast who utilizes various programming languages and technology stacks. My main passion is designing and building robust and scalable infrastructure solutions on the Server Side. I am AppsFlyer's first employee where I had the unique opportunity to grow the system and the business from nothing to being the market leader with a system that handles 10B API calls a day (and growing).

Eyal Yavor

Cofounder and CTO @ Meekan

Lead developer in Meekan, and now trains a bot for a living.

Eyal served in 8200, and fell in love with databases and DAOs. He did a few other things there, but nothing feels as good as a nice abstraction over a data source.

Afterwards, he worked at IdmLogic (Now acquired by CA), implementing identity management solutions for customers all over USA - Allowing him to ski in Denver, and run like Rocky in Philly.

Founded Meekan with Matty Mariansky and Lior Yavor, and saw sweat, tears and money turn into a scheduling platform. In the past year started developing Meekan as a chatbot, attracted 10,000 companies to try it, and got acquired by Doodle.com. Quite a year.

Tomer Brisker

Open source activist and hacker

Tomer has been an open source advocate and Linux user since the 90's. He currently works as a software engineer at Red Hat Israel. This year he was part of the organizing team of August Penguin.

Iris Shoor

Founder and CEO, Oribi

Iris is founder and CEO at Oribi, a startup company which creates a new paradigm for data collection and analytics. Prior to founding Oribi, Iris was co-founder at two successful startups. Iris is passionate about creating an amazing culture, simple products and creative marketing.

Amit Roseberger

Software Quality Enabler

I am a Product Enabler with a passion for Software Operations & Software Development.

I have extensive experience working with large organizations, as well as with small and agile R&D teams in companies like Zend Technologies (the PHP company), various startups, and, for the past few years, I am the Director of Quality Assurance at Panaya, which was recently acquired by infoSys, a Global cooperation based in India (INFY).

I have strong Agile development experience using methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban and I am a certified SCRUM Master since 2006.

I have hands-on experience implementing Automated Software Testing infrastructures using tools like Selenium Webdriver, UFT and more.

Optimizing Software development processes is in my blood.

Gil Tayar

Mostly Dead

From the olden days of DOS, to the stratospheric architectures of Wix, Gil was, is, and always will be, a software developer. Currently a software architect at Wix, he has in the past co-founded WebCollage, survived the bubble collapse of 2000, and worked on various big cloudy projects. He still doesn't know whether static languages or dynamic languages are the best.

Lidan Hifi

Fullstack Developer @ Wix, Reversim Summit Website

Lidan is a Fullstack Developer, currently building amazing apps at Wix. works on the server, client and mobile native.

He has 10 years of experience in writing code in a variety of languages and technologies and also consultants to various companies and startups.

Passionate about high-scale systems, machine learning apps and great products.

Adam Matan

Linux and FOSS Enthusiast, CTO @ vioozer.com

Software enthusiast since I was 10. I care about programming, leadership, open source and engineering culture.

Tal Salmona

VP Engineering, Platform at Kenshoo

Tal leads the platform engineering group at Kenshoo. Prior to that Tal led the Spring Insight project at VMware, worked at HP and founded a startup that dealt with social media analytics.

Karen Cohen

Product Architect @ Wix

Karen is a Product Architect at Wix. She guides development efforts across teams to implement and deliver products on Wix's platform.

Karen comes from a diverse technical background, having worked in multiple startups and army intelligence. She is an avid traveler and a foodie.

Dina Goldshtein

Software Developer @ Aternity

Dina Goldshtein recently started a new job as a software engineer at Aternity. Previously, she worked at BrightSource Energy, a solar energy company, where she built infrastructure components in C#, C++, and JavaScript and spent a lot of time improving processes, tools, and operations.

Nati Cohen

Production Engineer @ SimilarWeb

Nati Cohen is a Production Engineer at SimilarWeb, fighting manual labor with code and vengeance. Previous experience includes: operations consulting, software development, *nix administration and security research in the Intelligence corps as well as in multiple startup companies.

Gil Hoffer

VP R&D @ ravello (acquired by Oracle)

Gil had started programming at the age of 6 on a Commodore64 (first word in English was "goto", I kid you not), and never stopped since.

He loves the challenges of building large high-scale systems and high performing engineering organizations, and is an occasional scuba-diver/skier/trekker.

Victor Trakhtenberg

Director of R&D and Founding Team Member at Commerce Sciences

Victor is a software developer and architect. He is passionate about technologies as much as he is about implementation and deployment methodologies. Eager about building products and teams to achieve business goals along with growing the organizational culture. Currently is a Director of R&D at Commerce Sciences. Prior to Commerce Sciences Victor served as a Chief Architect at SupportSpace. Co-founder of the JavaIL community (www.meetup.com/JavaIL/) and WeCode-IL meetup. Victor is a big fan of the Groovy language and its eco-system.

Avner Cohen

CTO @ HiredScore

Been around computers and programming for over 20 years now, since the early days of PPL for PCBoard.

Currently CTO @ HiredScore, leading Infrastructure and Architecture in a Machine Learning centric startup.

Ran Tavory

The Voice @ Reversim, founder @ Yodas

A full-stacker and The Voice at reversim. Founder and janitor at yodas.com

Adir Amsalem

Build things @ World

Adir has been building the web in its better version for almost a decade. For the last 4 years, he has been specializing in front-end development, focuses on building tomorrow™s user interfaces.

Adir is working harder to forecast trends and gaining real-life experience in all the things that make the web interesting; product, design, code and everything in-between. With a great passion for technology and business, Adir continuously developing product sense and business skills in the aim to continue converting great ideas into reality.

Lital Hassine

Software engineer @ JoyTunes

Full stack software engineer at JoyTunes where I make things happen and learn to play the piano. Love peaches and other furry animals.

Shay Mandel

R&D Director, Undertone by Perion

Shay is a programmer at heart and has been programming since the 3rd grade. Since then he has had the opportunity to work on projects in a variety of fields, from Enterprise Software to Consumer Analytics and Big Data Personalization. Shay tests/develops/manages/defines software and loves seeing how software is used by customers. A true believer in Lean Thinking and Agile Development , he believe that the hard part of complex software projects is the soft part - people more than technology. Shay is a proud father of 2 daughters and enjoys cycling in his spare time.

Eran Harel

Chief Architect @ Outbrain

Eran is a software and system architect at the Outbrain's platform team - we write the infrastructure that Outbrain's massive scale runs on: RPC, messaging infrastructure, persistence infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, lots of backend, middle-ware thingies, and what have you.

Before Outbrain Eran worked as an Architect for Orbitz World Wide for 5 years, and several startup companies you will never hear about.

Yoav Abrahami

Chief Architect @ Wix

Yoav Abrahami is the Chief Architect at Wix.com, working with developers and operations to build the company's future products as well as accelerating and improving development processes. Prior to joining Wix, Yoav was an Architect at Amdocs Cramer OSS division. Yoav holds a MS in Physics and a BS in Computer Science from the Tel Aviv University.

shlomi hassan

System Architect @ Kenshoo

Responsible for operation, development and design of big data solutions for the social product.

Has over 12 years of experience in building various systems both from the field of near real time applications and Big Data distributed systems.

In depth understanding of big data concepts and architecture

in the past three years architecting big data solution for customer engagement analytic product

using : Hadoop stack, storm, kafka .

Co-Founder of the "Big Things"

Ori Harel

FED @ Capriza

I'm a full stack developer working at Capriza. Mainly focus on the mobile web right now but l have wet my hands in native android development in the past (plus private projects been developed in the sleepless nights provided by my 3 young children).

My passions are around mobile UI, context sensitive goodness and startup's everyday life. I previously worked at Mercury and all sorts of startups later on.

Ori Lahav

Co-Founder and GM Israel at Outbrain

Ori Lahav is Co-Founder and General Manager, Israel at Outbrain, and he oversees the company's R&D center located in Netanya, Israel. Prior to co-founding Outbrain, Ori led the R&D groups in search and classification at Shopping.com, which was acquired by eBay for $634 million. Ori also previously led the video streaming server group at technology company Vsoft. A practical engineer from the Rupin Academic Institute Ori is also a Major (reserve) officer in the Israeli Navy.