Creating the initial building blocks for the company's tech stack and engineering team.

Managed the Product Platform engineering group consisting of several independent squads, each containing a product owner and and an engineering manager.
The group was responsible for creating all the building block for the different Lemonade insurance products.
Launched and grew the first engineering squad in our secondary engineering site in Amsterdam.
Placed a lot of emphasis on growing the engineering team while maintaining the company's culture.
Was a part of Lemonade engineering senior leadership.

Helping to disrupt the insurance world for good, while providing a great experience to our users.
Led the risk squad which builds tools and integrates machine learning models to keep the bad risk out.

Leading all aspects of the engineering team (5 engineers), building the next generation of tools for data scientists and allowing them to focus on what they do best: Data science.

- Building a SaaS product using Python and React, over Google Cloud Platform.
- Manage and allocate tasks using Kanban under JIRA.
- Created an engineering metrics dashboard.

My team was building financial services to improve the financial well-being of PayPal customers.

- Built the integration with Acorns, a service which allows users to automatically invest their money in the stock market.
- Worked on the entire stack - backend, web and native mobile flows.

Created the Apps Development hands-on lab to teach non-technical students how to build mobile apps. Worked with App Inventor, a educational service by MIT which allows for the creation of mobile apps using the principals of computer science without the need to write a single line of code.

BillGuard was a mobile app which helped users to get a better picture of their financial situation, and take actions to improve it. The company got acquired by Prosper Marketplace on September 2015, and Israeli office closed on December 2016 :-(

- Lead a team of super talented fullstack developers, handling all aspects of the stack, from DevOps to making a screen pixel perfect.
- Worked across BillGuard's stack, including iOS and Android apps, Java server side and MySQL and MongoDB DBs.
- Managed the engineering aspects of the squad, working closely with a product manager to help define the specs and run team planning.

Freelance work providing consulting services to software companies, as well as developing mobile apps.

- Consultation services for creating complex systems in most advanced technologies.
- Created REST powered web applications with emphasis on the MEAN stack (Angular.js, Node.js, MongoDB) and Bootstrap. Familiarity with must-have tools such as Bower, Grunt and Yeoman, and unit tests using Karma, should.js and Sinon. Experience with cloud deployment (Amazon, Azure, Heroku) and social networks integration.
- Worked with companies ranging from start-up companies and up to enterprise, including AT&T's online collaboration flagship app, AT&T Connect.

Worked on an exciting new e-learning platform for professional software developers.
In charge of the development efforts.

Created a social network for bills, which leverages the group power to cut down on monthly bills. Business decision making, website development.

Lead teams and development activities, project assessment and planning.
Provided consulting services to customers with issues concerning architecture and development. 
Lectured in conferences (Israel and abroad), open houses and development training courses.

- Created complex enterprise level application architecture in WPF - using Prism, MVVM.
- Built mobile apps in the Microsoft ecosystem - Windows Phone and Metro Style Apps.

Lead the development of a new product, designed V-Next infrastructure and created a plan for developing it.
Comprehensive analysis of technologies and design patterns that would be used in developing the product.

Technological leader in the applicative infrastructure team. The products of the team were used by dozens of developers in a large scale project, and included UI and server infrastructures.

- Built the infrastructure of  a robust WPF app and the server side (WCF).
- Led and coordinated all teams involved in the project (about 12 teams – 70 people) in one of the versions of the project.
- System architecture planning, developer support and guidance.

Experience with Test Driven Development, Extreme Programming Techniques and Unit Testing.
Designed and developed new projects in C#, maintained existing legacy code in C# and Delphi.

CTO at Zorro | ex Lemonade - an experienced engineering manager who loves building products for a living

An open-source project to show one's agenda on an ePaper display.

Agenda Paper

A service that allows users to sync two calendars together so that their free/busy availability is reflected across their different calendars.

Elad Shaham

CTO at Zorro | ex Lemonade - an experienced engineering manager who loves building products for a living