Summary
Aviv Yaniv is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft with four years of professional experience building and hardening large-scale cloud services, currently leading AutoScale for Kusto. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping Predictive AutoScale from private preview to global availability—with incident leadership, telemetry-driven improvements, and authentication/monitoring hardening. Aviv has a track record of mentoring newcomers, creating diagnostic tools (including public KQL utilities and anomaly detectors), and enabling end-to-end deployments with Terraform integrations. Earlier roles span neuroscience research software, embedded and enterprise systems in the IDF, and founding a student-run knowledge organization—demonstrating rare fluency across domains from real-time embedded to cloud-scale data services. He brings a data-driven, growth mindset and a penchant for practical tooling that surfaces hard-to-find bugs and accelerates team productivity.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Sceince & Economics, GPA of 85 (in each major), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Sceince & Economics, GPA of 85 (in each major) at Tel Aviv University
Excellence program for software engineering students in Weizmann institute (During High School), 100, Excellence program for software engineering students in Weizmann institute (During High School), 100 at Weizmann Institute of Science
Software engineering, Physics, Software engineering, Physics at Ahad Ha'am
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Hebrew, English