Tzach Livyatan
VP Of Product Strategy In The Growth Team
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTzach Livyatan is a product leader with 14 years of experience scaling technical data products, currently serving as VP of Product Strategy on ScyllaDB’s Growth Team. He blends deep product strategy and go-to-market experience from long tenures at ScyllaDB and Oracle with hands-on engineering roots dating back to systems and software roles. Comfortable shipping both infrastructure and monitoring solutions, he has contributed to the ScyllaDB open-source ecosystem—improving docs, fixing bugs, and building Grafana/Prometheus deployment automation—bridging developer experience and operational reliability. His academic background in AI and computer science from Technion underpins a pragmatic, data-informed approach to product decisions. Based in Brookline, MA, he balances product leadership with ongoing personal development as an amateur developer. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed-systems trade-offs into clear product priorities that accelerate growth.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
146reputation
3kreached
6answers
2questions
Github Skills (29)
monitoring10
docker10
c-language10
nosql10
scripting10
bash10
scylla10
grafana10
containerization10
dockers10
script10
prometheus10
sh10
shell10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
scylladb/scylla-monitoring
Apr 2016 - Dec 2021
Simple monitoring of Scylla with Grafana
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:103 reviews, 201 commits, 253 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tzach focused on building the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Scylla monitoring project. They set up Grafana and Prometheus Docker instances, configured data sources, and implemented automation for starting and stopping the monitoring stack. Their work included adding features for Prometheus data loading, integrating Grafana plugins, and improving the reliability of the deployment process through error checking and version upgrades. They also created scripts to manage the Docker containers and handle environment variables.
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scylladb/scylladb
Jul 2015 - Jan 2023
NoSQL data store using the Seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:292 reviews, 42 commits, 69 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tzach primarily contributed to the ScyllaDB documentation and made minor code adjustments, indicating a focus on improving the clarity and accuracy of information related to ScyllaDB's functionality. Their work included updating documentation, fixing typos in descriptions, and modifying example commands to align with correct syntax. The user demonstrated skills in documenting features, fixing bugs and refining the user experience through more precise language.
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