Shai Kfir
R&D Manager at Wix
Israel
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Top SchoolShai Kfir is an R&D manager with 11 years of experience shaping web applications and production systems at scale, currently leading R&D at Wix from Israel. He built and scaled cross-functional engineering groups—creating the Customer Care R&D team, running global technical support orgs, and driving production operations that achieved 99.95% uptime in a CI/CD environment. Shai blends deep front-end roots (he helped build Wix’s first HTML Editor) with strong operational instincts, incident analysis experience, and a track record of turning customer pain into product-driven engineering solutions. He’s also a dedicated people developer—mentoring new managers, co-creating an internal leadership program, and applying a life-coaching certification to grow teams. Known for pragmatic tooling and distributed ownership models, he thrives where rapid delivery, reliability, and team growth intersect.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
editable8
html-webpack-plugin8
render8
template-literals8
template-engine7
react5
wix5
boilerplate3
eslint2
webpack2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wix-incubator/javascript-essentials
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 2 days
wixclient-sidelearning-materialsessentialengineers
shaikfir/githooktest
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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