Technology executive. Most recently CIO and Head of R&D of the Israeli Air Force’s primary software, data and infrastructure unit, at the rank of Colonel.
Over 20 years building and leading large multidisciplinary engineering organizations across software, data and AI, cyber, and IT infrastructure.
My work has remained anchored in the technology itself: architecture, platform strategy, and the delivery roadmap. Past a certain scale, though, the architecture and the organization stop being separate problems. How teams are structured decides what the technology can become; which leaders you grow decides whether it gets built.
Focus
Architecture and delivery for mission-critical systems. Legacy modernization onto containerized infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift.
Business continuity and disaster recovery programs. Active-active architecture across sites, and performance under peak load.
Generative AI taken to production with every layer built in-house. AI-assisted development embedded in the engineering workflow as standard practice.
Structural design, leadership development and engineering culture in organizations of several hundred people.
Background
Head of Ofek 324 · CIO and Head of R&D
Israeli Air Force. Several hundred software developers, data science and AI specialists, and cyber professionals. Full ownership of technology strategy, architecture, delivery and resource allocation.
Engineering command
Three successive commands across distinct engineering domains: the IT Infrastructure Engineering Unit, the Operational Technology Engineering Branch, and the Avionics R&D Unit.
Software engineering and development management
Real-time embedded software engineer, then team leader and group manager. Led the development of a large-scale command and control systems as head contractor.
MBA · B.Sc. Computer Science · Directors & Senior Executives Program
Tel Aviv University.
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