Summary
Itzik Paz is a cloud and software architect turned engineering leader with two decades of experience designing web-scale systems and nine years in senior cloud roles, now leading Solutions Architecture at AWS. He combines deep hands-on development (Node.js, Ruby on Rails, .NET migrations) with proven management skills—scaling teams, instituting cross-functional processes, and mentoring engineers from first hire to mature R&D organizations. His career includes founding- and exec-level technical roles (CTO, Chief Architect) where he drove platform migrations, microservices adoption, and company-wide IT strategy. Based in Santa Rosa, he pairs practical defensive security interests—evidenced by a longstanding bug bounty track record of 20+ confirmed bugs—with enterprise cloud architecture expertise. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem solving that keeps legacy systems running during major platform transitions while moving teams toward modern, maintainable stacks.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MCPD Programming, MCPD Programming at Self study
MCSE NT network, MCSE NT network at John Bryce
English, Hebrew