Summary
Or Ilan is a Senior Data Engineer with 8 years of experience building high-performance, cost-efficient big data systems for enterprise and defense environments. He combines a strong research background (MSc in Computer Science & AI) with hands-on expertise in Scala, Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake and AWS, having operated clusters that process over a million events per hour. At ZipRecruiter he led cross-team architectures, created the first production LLM-driven content pipeline that boosted job page traffic 8%, and cut infrastructure costs by tens of thousands monthly through lifecycle and resource optimizations. Previously he delivered mission-critical cyber security analytics in the IDF, improving observability and real-time pipelines in Cloudera ecosystems. Known as a pragmatic problem-solver and domain authority on job and streaming data, he frequently bridges research, engineering and product needs to turn complex requirements into production-grade solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Bsc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Bsc) Computer Science at The College of Management Academic Studies
Master of Science (Msc) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (Msc) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence at Bar-Ilan University
Hebrew, English