Elad Shaham
Founding CTO at Smirk Health
Tel Mond, Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolElad Shaham is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building product-driven teams and scalable web platforms across fintech, insurtech, and healthtech. As a former Director of Engineering at Lemonade and CTO at multiple startups, he combines hands-on full‑stack expertise (Node.js, React, Python, AWS/GCP) with a talent for recruiting and maturing engineering organizations. He builds pragmatic infrastructure that simplifies complex domains—most recently creating AI-driven benefits infrastructure at Smirk Health and earlier streamlining health insurance flows at Zorro. An entrepreneur at heart, he has delivered numerous early-stage products as a fractional CTO and contributes practical open-source tooling like Israeli bank scrapers to automate financial data integration. Based in Israel with a BA in Computer Science, he’s known for blending technical depth with cultural leadership to turn ambiguous problems into reliable, production systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Reichman University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (8)
data-extraction10
financial10
puppeteer10
javascript10
extraction10
data-parsing10
webscraping10
nodejs9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eshaham/israeli-bank-scrapers
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021
Provide scrapers for all major Israeli banks and credit card companies
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 48 reviews, 452 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Elad focused on creating and improving scrapers for various Israeli banks and credit card companies. Their primary contributions involved implementing scrapers for specific financial institutions, such as Discount Bank and Leumi Card, enabling data extraction from their online platforms. They refactored existing code by extracting and generalizing login and data fetching logic, which improved the overall maintainability of the project. Furthermore, the user enhanced error handling within the scrapers, especially addressing password-related issues.
creditcredit-cardscrapersbanksscraping
eshaham/readme-generator
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:61 commits, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 26 days
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