Eli Zeitlin is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nine years in high-impact security and trust roles, currently driving fraud, abuse, and misuse detection at Databricks. He has a long track record at Meta and Microsoft building large-scale defenses—bot and scraping protection, rate-limiting, privacy safeguards, and cloud-native malware file storage—that materially reduced risk and saved millions. A hands-on technical leader and fixer, Eli has repeatedly turned research and threat findings into production systems and even legal actions to stop abuse. He combines deep systems and security expertise with product instincts, shipping tooling that hundreds of engineers use daily and authoring productivity utilities that went viral internally. Educated in computer science and mathematics in Israel, he also brings rare experience spanning endpoint, cloud, analytics, and adversarial detection across companies at internet scale.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science and Mathematics, B.Sc., Computer Science and Mathematics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Engineer's degree, Computer Science and Electronics, Engineer's degree, Computer Science and Electronics at Boys Town Jerusalem High School
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Eli Zeitlin - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks