Summary
Ohad Israeli is a seasoned chief architect with over two decades of experience designing and delivering full-stack, cloud-native, and data-intensive systems across startups and large enterprises. He has led architecture and platform efforts at companies like Natural Intelligence, BigID, Payoneer and Checkmarx, spanning Node, Python, Java/Scala, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and major cloud providers. A hands-on technologist and serial founder, Ohad moves projects from POC to production while mentoring global teams and shaping developer productivity and AI-driven features. He combines deep systems thinking โ from real-time embedded solutions to large-scale graph and big data POCs โ with pragmatic delivery experience in security, authentication and API ecosystems. Recognized as a multi-year Microsoft MVP and active in industry advisory programs, he also founded the Israeli chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. Outside work he channels curiosity into hardware, woodworking and community projects, including leading a large device donation effort for displaced families.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hebrew