Professional Experience

Professional Summary

I'm an engineering leader with 18+ years of experience building and scaling both customer-facing products and the cloud platforms that power them. My background combines deep technical ownership in distributed systems, cloud security, and deployment safety with five years of hands-on leadership running high-performing teams.

I have delivered initiatives that improved reliability, security, and developer velocity for large-scale systems, and I have also shipped user-facing features and platform capabilities that shaped customer experience and product adoption. I operate comfortably across product and infrastructure domains, bringing system-level clarity to complex problems and driving them to execution.

As a leader, I focus on clarity, strong architectural judgment, and developing engineers who take end-to-end ownership. I stay close to the technical details while ensuring teams move with purpose and deliver work that advances business goals.

I am motivated by building resilient systems, impactful products, and teams that take pride in excellent engineering.

Work Experience

Engineering Manager

Stripe

Since September 2025

Resource Automation & Cloud Platform:
  • Lead platform team within Stripe's Compute organization responsible for systems enabling engineers to safely provision, manage, and evolve cloud infrastructure at scale
  • Build internal abstractions, deployment integrations, and governance tooling that enable consistent, secure, and high-velocity infrastructure changes across Stripe's global footprint
  • Ensure cloud resources follow Stripe's operational, security, and compliance standards by default while providing product teams a streamlined, reliable way to incorporate infrastructure into their services
  • Deliver visibility and identity foundations that underpin Stripe's cloud environment and support the company's ability to scale reliably

Technologies: Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Governance Tooling, Identity & Access Management, Distributed Systems

Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft

May 2021 - September 2025

Led engineering teams in Azure Data (aka Azure Fabric) focused on secure, large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise analytics workloads across global regions. Drove initiatives in cloud security, network isolation, data protection, and platform modernization to improve reliability, compliance, and performance for mission-critical customer scenarios.

Key Achievements:
  • Led the design and delivery of core network-security capabilities that strengthened isolation boundaries, enabled private connectivity, and protected sensitive enterprise workloads from exfiltration and unauthorized access
  • Shipped platform features that enabled secure integration between customer environments and Azure services, improving adoption among regulated industries and unlocking usage for high-sensitivity data scenarios
  • Architected secure virtual-network patterns that enabled firewall-enforced execution of large-scale compute workloads such as Spark, enhancing data governance, access control, and operational safety
  • Delivered customer-controlled encryption mechanisms (CMK) that gave organizations ownership of their encryption lifecycle and strengthened Azure's compliance posture across multiple industry standards
  • Led modernization of large-scale cloud services by migrating from .NET Framework to .NET 6+, improving performance, stability, and developer productivity while reducing operational overhead
  • Built and coached high-performing engineering teams that delivered reliably across multi-quarter initiatives requiring cross-org alignment with Product, Security, Networking, and global Azure engineering groups

Technologies: C#, C++, Azure, Network Security, Identity Management, Distributed Systems, Microservices

Principal Software Engineer

Smartsheet

September 2019 - May 2021

Served as the technical lead for Smartsheet's Reporting and Analytics organization, driving the modernization of a mission-critical analytics platform used across the product. Led architecture, design, and implementation efforts that transformed legacy systems into a scalable, cloud-native solution on AWS.

Key Achievements:
  • Architected and delivered the end-to-end transformation of Smartsheet's reporting platform, replacing legacy components with a modern, high-scale cloud architecture that improved performance, reliability, and feature velocity
  • Designed and executed a large-scale production database migration with minimal customer impact, enabling real-time analytics and significantly improving system availability
  • Built microservices and data-access patterns for multi-tenant data aggregation, ensuring secure and efficient retrieval of customer data while meeting strict access-control requirements
  • Strengthened the platform's security and compliance posture by implementing best practices in cloud configuration, data protection, and IAM governance for analytics services
  • Partnered with infrastructure, SRE, and security teams to harden AWS deployments, optimize service performance, and improve operational resilience
  • Mentored engineers on distributed-systems design, microservices patterns, and database architecture, elevating engineering quality and contributing to the team's long-term technical direction

Technologies: Java, MySQL, EKS, AWS, Kubernetes, Microservices

Principal Software Engineer

Splunk

December 2017 - September 2019

Authentication & Identity Systems

  • Co-architected Splunk's identity and authentication services for cloud-first transformation
  • Implemented critical microservices supporting authentication infrastructure
  • Ensured high availability for authentication services critical to customer access
  • Collaborated with security teams to implement industry best practices

Technologies: Golang, AWS, CI/CD, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Identity Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

2012 - 2017

  • Developed distributed systems for large-scale web crawling and image processing for Bing
  • Improved system performance by 40% through optimized pipeline designs
  • Designed and implemented high-throughput systems processing petabytes of web content

Technologies: Distributed Systems, Zookeeper, COSMOS, Map Reduce, Data pipelines, C++, C#

Software Engineering Manager

BigBand Networks Inc.

2006 - 2010

  • Promoted to management within 18 months, leading a 7-person team
  • Achieved 100% on-time delivery for major releases while meeting quality benchmarks
  • Introduced real-time MPEG2 processing capabilities, expanding platform functionality

Technologies: C++, Embedded Systems, Video, MPEG

Education & Continuous Learning

M.S. in Software Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

GPA: 3.85

Pittsburgh, PA

B.Sc. in Software Engineering

Ben Gurion University

Beer Sheva, Israel

Specialized Training

Windows Internals | Kernel Debugging | RTOS Architecture | Security Protocols

Core Competencies

Leadership & Management

Technical Strategy & Roadmap | Multi-Team Leadership | Cross-Functional Collaboration | High-Performance Team Building | Incident Management & Operations | Talent Acquisition & Retention

Distributed Systems & Cloud

Large-Scale Microservices | High-Availability Systems | AWS & Azure | Kubernetes | Fault-Tolerant Architecture | Performance at Scale

Enterprise Fundamentals

Network Security | Data Encryption | Customer-Managed Keys

Generative AI & LLM Tooling

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | LLM Integration & Deployment | Prompt Engineering | AI Workflow Automation

Programming & Technologies

Modern C++, C, C#, Java, Golang, Python | Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure) | Kubernetes | CI/CD | Database Systems

Key Achievements

  • Built network security solutions for Azure Data customers ensuring enterprise-grade security and compliance
  • Led teams of 10+ engineers across multiple technical domains with focus on security and reliability
  • Delivered enterprise security features including encryption, access controls, and identity management
  • Managed incident response for critical systems where downtime affects entire platform availability
  • Mentored 5+ engineers into senior and management roles over the past 3 years
  • Successfully migrated legacy systems to modern architectures while maintaining security and reliability standards

Passionate about building secure, scalable systems and leading high-performing engineering teams!