About Me

At age 10, I wrote my first lines of code—using BASIC on a Sinclair computer that felt to me like a window into the future. From then on, for the next eight years of school, I spent most of my free time in front of a computer.

In junior high, I managed to get my hands on a C compiler (not a simple feat at the time…) and started to grasp what a pointer is, and the difference between a statement and an expression. More importantly, I began to understand the principles of good programming.

A couple of years later, still on that old Borland C++ environment, I started writing in C++ and was exposed to deeper ideas about software design. Realizing the difference between just writing code and being able to create robust, extensible code was, for me, just as mind-blowing as the very idea of programming itself.

I developed—both during my military service and as a civilian—systems that stood at the forefront of research and technology, and played an important role in the security of the State of Israel.
Among other things, I built an algorithm-rich subsystem that formed part of a project which won the Israel Defense Prize (Unit 8153)

I’ve conducted numerous studies in a wide range of fields, both in academia and in industry.
I entered the world of artificial intelligence and autonomous agent systems well before their recent “boom” in the past decade; I published several papers on the topic of fault detection and estimation in collaborative agent systems without communication.

Beyond academic research, many of the systems I worked on, in both defense and civilian organizations, required deep research—both analytical and experimental.

The main strength of the systems I’ve developed comes from comprehensive analysis, leading to architecture and design that precisely fit the need and enable robustness and flexibility.

One great example is that system from Unit 8153 I mentioned earlier: The legacy version I was tasked with improving took over an hour to perform its calculations and only achieved results accurate to within a kilometer. I transformed it into a system that delivered centimeter-level precision in just seconds. Intensive research and experimentation enabled that level of accuracy—but the ability to perform those calculations interactively and almost instantly? That was made possible by the architecture.

I founded a startup (Qliqa) in the field of social networks—back when the very concept didn’t even exist yet…
The startup was selected by Seedcamp TLV and others as one of the most promising in its field, and even managed to advance several rounds in the TechCrunch Disrupt competition (though, unfortunately, that promise wasn’t ultimately fulfilled, and it eventually shut down).

I launched a bootcamp as part of Startup Nation Central, aimed at CS and SW Eng. graduates—specifically Haredi women and minority groups. In July, I was invited to establish Excellenteam; by September, it was already up and running.
Graduates of the bootcamp landed leading roles (as algorithm developers, RT engineers, and more) in companies like Mobileye, Amazon, and Lightricks. The tremendous success of the early cohorts led additional companies such as J.P. Morgan, Google, and others to join the initiative. The practical training program I developed for the course was later adopted as a foundational curriculum in several academic tracks.

Among the management challenges I’ve led were:

• A startup that had spent over two years on significant development work but without reaching a launch; within a few months, I guided the team through an organized process that resulted in a beta version and a solid plan for the first production release.

• A bootcamp where I managed 40+ software engineers in two groups, along with additional staff—simulating a demanding, real-world work environment where the teams took on challenging development assignments.

• Reviving a development group that had disbanded: I rebuilt it from just the two remaining engineers back into a strong multi-team unit, which continued to deliver, support, and supply both legacy and new projects.

I have trained hundreds of students—in academia, in the Experis program, and in the “Excellenteam” program of Startup Nation Central, under the auspices of the President of Israel.
From traditional classroom teaching, to intensive, hands-on work on code and design, and all the way to preparing for job interviews and career counseling.

No less than the phenomenal success of the Excellenteam program, in the demanding and intensive Experis program I also received great appreciation from the students: in several classes, I received the highest possible evaluation—“5/5”—in every category, from every student.