Summary
Ben Yitzhaki is a platform engineering tech lead based in Tel Aviv with 15+ years building developer-facing systems and 11 years of professional experience across startups and scale-ups. He currently leads platform efforts at monday.com after progressing from infrastructure engineer roles there, bringing deep operational experience in cloud-native infrastructure and developer productivity. His background spans full-stack development, infrastructure ownership, and hands-on DevOps from early freelance web projects to product-focused teams at Como and Keeprz. Ben is comfortable bridging product and platform needs—automating workflows, improving observability, and enabling teams to self-serve—while still contributing code when it matters. He combines startup agility with large-team practices, and his career shows a steady shift from building customer-facing features to empowering engineering velocity at scale. A practical problem-solver, he often pairs system design with pragmatic tooling choices learned from running production services.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Hebrew, English, Finnish