Oren Held is an experienced software engineer and tech lead with 18 years building data stacks, web platforms and operating-system level software from startup to hyperscale. Based in Israel, he has driven developer productivity and modernized high-scale product platforms at Meta/Facebook, and previously led backend and growth infrastructure teams through rapid expansion. He combines deep systems expertise—storage, Linux/Unix layers and distributed backends—with hands-on implementation in languages and frameworks like Ruby/Rails and Hadoop. Equally comfortable with people leadership, Oren has managed high-performing teams with a strong focus on culture, mentorship and delivery. He brings a pragmatic blend of maker and manager, able to translate operational constraints into developer-facing tooling that scales. A background in both computer science and biology hints at interdisciplinary curiosity that informs his systems thinking.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Science & Biology, B.Sc, Computer Science & Biology at The Open University of Israel
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