Idan Fridman is a senior engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and scaling multi-regional teams across Tel Aviv, Kiev and the U.S. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at DraftKings, he previously led BlueRibbon to acquisition by designing high‑throughput gamification services that drove measurable revenue uplifts and cut compute costs by 95%. He combines product-minded technical leadership with hands-on architecture skills—shipping APIs and SDKs with two-week integration SLAs and operating systems that manage multi-billion-dollar promotional budgets. Known for turning marketing intelligence and personalization into double-digit million-dollar profit streams, he excels at aligning engineering execution with commercial outcomes. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an MBA in Entrepreneurship, and brings a founder’s appetite for rapid product-market fit along with enterprise-grade delivery discipline.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at The College of Management Academic Studies
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at Holon Institute of Technology
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Idan Fridman - Senior Director Of Engineering at DraftKings Inc.