Omer Lifshitz is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with over 15 years of experience scaling engineering teams and product-led startups across fintech, observability, and desktop runtimes. He has led high-impact teams at Datadog (APM) and OpenFin, helping bridge executive strategy with hands-on engineering to drive revenue and product-market fit. His early founding experience with Cubiez foreshadowed modern desktop-web convergence and demonstrates a long-standing focus on developer-facing platforms and rich client experiences. Omer combines strong hiring and culture-building instincts with technical depth from years as a senior engineer, including systems work during service in the IDF. Based in the New York metro area, he now leads a stealth InsurTech venture as CTO, where he applies observability and enterprise app experience to a regulated domain. Notably, his career reflects a pattern of anticipating platform shifts and turning them into commercial products.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The Open University
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