Nir Alfasi
Head Of R&D Truvify (via Tikal)
Herzliya, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolNir Alfasi is an engineering leader and architect with over two decades of experience building resilient, distributed systems and scaling high-performance teams from early-stage startups to public companies. Currently Head of R&D at Truvify (via Tikal) and Group Lead at Tikal, he architects AI-driven, production-ready platforms while steering backend strategy and mentoring senior engineers. His career includes founding-engineer impact at Hippo (joined as engineer #7 and helped reach IPO), deep resiliency work at Netflix (contributor to the Simian Army chaos tools), and early-stage product scaling at BlueSnap/Plimus. With an MSc in Graph Theory and a hands-on background across Node.js/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS and GCP AI tooling, he blends rigorous mathematical thinking with pragmatic delivery. Known for bringing a founder’s mindset to product-first engineering and for subtle craftsmanship in reliability and chaos engineering, he also participates actively in the community as a top StackOverflow contributor and conference speaker.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
certificate Cybersecurity Course, certificate Cybersecurity Course at Facebook & CodePath - Sprint 2018M.Sc Mathematics, M.Sc Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (6)
chaos-engineering10
javas10
aws10
java10
configuration-management9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/SimianArmy
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
Tools for keeping your cloud operating in top form. Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nir primarily focused on improving the resilience and stability of the Simian Army toolset. They fixed a potential crash related to empty attachments within the EBS volume crawler. Additionally, the user implemented changes to the configuration handling to gracefully handle missing or invalid settings, returning default values and logging errors. Further enhancements included correcting logic for termination limits in the Chaos Monkey to prevent excessive terminations.
chaosmonkeyresiliencycloudoperating
alfasin/Bluesnap-API
Nov 2012 - Dec 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
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