Summary
Niv Itzhaky is a seasoned backend and AI architect with over two decades of hands-on experience building scalable, data-driven systems across healthtech, fintech, and SaaS. As Co-Founder and current Backend Expert at Itamar Medical, he has led Kubernetes migrations, designed Spring Boot microservices for real-time medical diagnostics, and optimized pipelines handling tens of millions of records. He combines deep engineering skills in Python, Java/Scala, Kafka and BigQuery with product intuition—delivering ETL platforms that reclaimed 18+ developer-months per year and AI models that produced meaningful loyalty predictions within a quarter. A pragmatic mentor and speaker, Niv frequently upskills teams through bootcamps and internal tooling, and his public writing reached millions of impressions. Based in Givatayim, Israel, he pairs an MBA-finance background with a computer science degree, making him equally fluent in technical trade-offs and business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.B.A Finance General, M.B.A Finance General at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
BA Computer Science & Management, BA Computer Science & Management at Tel Aviv University