Summary
Lidan Hifi is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 14+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and high-performing teams across fintech, SaaS and AI. He combines full-stack technical depth—architecture, backend, frontend, DevOps and AI/ML—with a people-first leadership style that turned ideas into platforms routing 1B+ events/month and halved production incidents through developer-centric tooling and mentoring. As a founder/CTO he automated high-stakes KYC/AML workflows with AI agents and designed same-day, bank-grade fund-transfer rails tailored to Israeli real-estate payments. His work on a serverless Jupyter runtime and large-scale notifications infrastructure demonstrates a recurring focus: remove infrastructure friction so product teams can iterate rapidly. Based in Israel, he actively open-sources tools and shares lessons publicly, multiplying impact beyond his teams.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Software Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English