Nadav Soferman
Co-Founder And CPO at Cloudinary
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolNadav Soferman is a seasoned software leader and co-founder who has spent over 14 years building and scaling Cloudinary into a leading SaaS image and video management platform, currently serving as CPO. A developer since age eight with a BSc in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, he blends deep technical hands-on experience across backend and frontend stacks with product strategy, product marketing, and R&D leadership. He has driven core SDK and library work (PHP, JS, Ruby, Node) used by developers worldwide, contributing features from upload flows to transformation APIs and responsive image support. Comfortable from low-level infrastructure to UX and graphic design, Nadav excels at taking technology initiatives from early prototypes to production-ready, composable products. Based in Israel, he thrives on bootstrapped startup dynamics and cross-functional problem solving, with a track record of shipping infrastructure that handles large-scale media and developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
jquery10
coffeescript10
apidoc10
npm-package10
rails10
manipulation10
ruby10
video-editing10
php10
cloudinary10
api10
image-manipulation10
transform10
nodejs10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloudinary/cloudinary_gem
Feb 2012 - Sep 2017
Cloudinary GEM for Ruby on Rails integration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 109 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nadav primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Cloudinary Ruby gem. Their commits involved adding and modifying parameters, such as radius and angle, used in image transformations. Further contributions included adding support for various features like form tags, underlays, zip download URLs, and other parameters to the transformation process. The user also addressed compatibility issues with Rails and CarrierWave, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the gem's capabilities for image and video manipulation.
cloudinaryruby-on-railsruby-gemimage-manipulationrails
cloudinary/cloudinary_npm
Jun 2012 - Sep 2017
Cloudinary NPM for node.js integration
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nadav primarily contributed to the Cloudinary NPM package by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and updating the codebase to support new functionalities within the Cloudinary service. They added features like opacity transformations, support for preloaded file handling, and a variety of admin API functionalities including listing by moderation kind and status, and support for large raw files. Significant changes were also made in response to reported issues, which involved refactoring code and upgrading dependencies.
cloudinaryvideo-transformationimage-transformationsvideocdn
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