Gilad Novik
Founder at Mobile Cherry
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolGilad Novik is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend systems, developer tooling, and distributed infrastructure from Israel. He has led R&D and CTO roles at fast-growth companies and venture firms, and most recently founded Mobile Cherry to consult on backend deployments and developer-focused products. Hands-on across stacks, he has deep experience with Node.js, PostgreSQL, VPN and proxy infrastructure—evidenced by contributions to the widely used luminati-proxy where he added country/DNS support, SSL sniffing, monitoring and stability fixes. Known for turning complex networking and security challenges into production-ready services, he pairs low-level protocol knowledge with product sensibility. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who moves fluidly between architecture, ops and code to accelerate teams and launches.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
apidoc10
http10
internationalization10
proxy10
proxy-server10
localization10
api10
proxies10
nodejs10
ssl9
ios9
tls129
monitoring9
objective-c9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
luminati-io/luminati-proxy
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Luminati HTTP/HTTPS Proxy manager
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:48 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gilad primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and monitoring capabilities of a proxy management tool. They implemented features such as country and DNS support, server information display, and real-time graphs for proxy statistics. Furthermore, they integrated preliminary checks to assess network connectivity, firewall access, and credential validity. They also addressed a crash fix and implemented SSL sniffing capabilities.
luminatiproxy-serverproxyhttps-proxyfiddler
giladno/express-boilerplate
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
Simple boilerplate for expressjs
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 9 months
boilerplateexpressjsexpressnodejsmongoose
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