Summary
Victor Trakhtenberg is a veteran engineering executive based in Israel with over two decades of experience building and scaling product-led engineering organizations across insurance, adtech and personalization startups. He has repeatedly led growth-oriented teams as VP of Engineering or R&D—most recently at Guardz and previously at Next Insurance and PayEm—combining hands-on architecture work with hiring, process design and cross-functional execution. Victor’s background spans full-stack systems, data pipelines and cloud migrations, and he has a track record of moving monoliths to service-oriented, observable platforms while improving developer velocity. A community builder as co-founder of Java.IL and co-organizer of Reversim summit, he quietly fuels local tech ecosystems and recruitment pipelines that many startups rely on.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
ETH Zürich
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Israel Jobs
Hebrew, Russian, English