Summary
Otniel Amara is a VP Data and seasoned data executive with 12 years of experience designing data strategies, architectures, and governance for startups, enterprises, and government bodies. He has led national-scale initiatives in Israel—shaping the government’s national data lake and advising the Central Bureau of Statistics, tax and transportation ministries, and security authorities—while also founding data teams and consultancies that help growing companies operationalize ML-driven insights. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and executive strategy, he’s built end-to-end data platforms, prediction engines, and training programs that translate complex requirements into measurable growth. Based in Israel, Otniel blends startup agility (co-founding Dojo BI and serving as CDO-as-a-Service) with enterprise rigor, and is known for turning policy-level data visions into practical, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at The Interdisciplinary Center