Professional Experience

Professional Summary

Engineering Manager with 16+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in management and 2+ years in technical leadership. Proven track record in delivering customer-facing cloud products that are secure, scalable, and high-performance. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and driving product innovation from concept to deployment. Directly contributed to Azure Fabric's core features, including secure networking, data access controls, and customer-managed encryption, ensuring enterprise customers can run mission-critical workloads with confidence. Experienced in distributed systems, cloud security, and networking at scale.

Work Experience

Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft

Since May 2021

Enterprise Fundamentals:
  • Led development of Private Links for Azure Fabric, enabling seamless, private connectivity for customers, enhancing security and regulatory compliance
  • Coordinated a complex, cross-functional project with 50+ teams across multiple business units to align roadmaps and synchronize deliverables
  • Implemented Customer Managed Keys (CMK), providing customers full control over data encryption - critical requirement for compliance-driven industries like finance and healthcare
  • Designed and launched Managed Virtual Networks, a core Azure Fabric feature, ensuring secure execution of ephemeral workloads behind enterprise firewalls
Team Leadership & Operations:
  • Managed engineering teams focused on security infrastructure and customer access management
  • Established high-reliability operations for mission-critical services where downtime directly impacts customer access to the platform
  • Mentored engineers into senior and leadership roles, building high-performance culture validated through internal feedback
Technical Strategy & Execution:
  • Directed large-scale modernization of core services (.NET Framework to .NET 6+), improving performance and security posture
  • Delivered Managed Virtual Networks, ensuring secure execution of customer workloads behind enterprise firewalls
  • Managed greenfield integration projects allowing third-party developers secure access to platform services

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

Principal Software Engineer

Smartsheet

September 2019 - May 2021

Technical leadership for high-scale analytics and data systems

  • Designed high-scale reporting services supporting real-time analytics for enterprise customers
  • Led complex production database migration improving scalability and reliability
  • Established distributed system best practices and provided technical mentorship
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams including product and security

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!