ASSAF LAVIE

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Assaf Lavie

Startup Advisor
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Helping startups make early-stage decisions about technology, product, and hiring.

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Valence
Freelance

Cyber SaaS POC (stealth mode 🤐); Robotic process automation.

Golang Typescript Kubernetes Playwright

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Tensorleap
Advisor

Product, back-end architecture, observability.

Kubernetes Node Terraform CDK

W
Wix
Back-end Architecture Consulting

Improving runtime isolation of an in-house serverless platform for idempotent, side-effect free, cacheable functions.

Serverless Kubernetes Node Docker

C
Clear
DevOps Consulting

Speeding up the development cycle of a Kubernetes-based settlement solution. Implementing CI, testing and automated deployments cross-cloud and on-prem.

Kubernetes Node CircleCI DevOps

E
Env0
Product & Business Development

Productizing Infrastructure-as-Code by offering on-demand, cross-cloud environments on top of Terraform.

AWS Terraform Biz-Dev Product

L
Lumigo
AWS Consulting

Cloud architecture for a serverless troubleshooting & distributed tracing product.

AWS λ CDK Python Fargate Golang

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Amenity Analytics
Serverless All the Things!

Back-end rebuilt from scratch to increase scale 100x.
Staff training in serverless, cloud-native development and dev/ops methodology.
Zero snowflakes, 100% infrastructure-as-code.

Training Multi-Account AWS ETL CI/CD λ SLS Python Honeycomb

B
Binaris
Cloud Technologist

High-perf function-as-a-service on top of AWS.
Rebuilding Lambda without cold starts. No big deal.
Lots of obsessing over milliseconds.

Architecture Performance Optimization Node Python Docker Terraform Ansible Nginx

M
Meta Networks
Cloud Dev/Ops

Infrastructure as code using the terrible™️(Terraform + Ansible) stack.

AWS Python Docker Terraform Ansible

C
CloudShare
Product & POCs

Technological research and POCs for a cross-cloud integration project (AWS, Azure, Rackspace). Expanding the company's Dev & Test offering with product work, technical blogging and showcases.

Blogging Product Docker Golang Jenkins-Plugin

F
Forter
Freelance

Securing several large ELK deployments using SearchGuard.

ElasticSearch Kibana Logstash Docker Chef OpenSSL

S
Spartacs
Interim CTO

Back-end architecture and dev-ops for an ad-tech system designed to scale to millions of req/second with low latency. Helped build the R&D by recruiting a CTO and developers.

Serverless λ Redshift ETL Docker Recruiting

O
Optibus
Cloud Ops

Transitioning from bare-metal to production-grade AWS.

Docker Ansible CloudFormation Jenkins

S
Singular
Cloud Back-End

Large-scale AWS back-end architecture.

Docker CloudFormation Ansible Node ELK Grafana

M
MailWise
Cloud Architecture

Design and setup of server-side architecture for a mobile email app.

AWS Flask Swagger Mongo IMAP

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Stratoscale
UX/UI

UX design and development of a data-center management web application.

Photoshop Backbone SASS D3 CoffeeScript Node

DesignDesign

Dual-touch Phone

Smartphones have a thumb problem. The touchscreen is a magical invention, but it definitely has its shortcomings.

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Wikipedia UI Concept

I love Wikipedia, but too often the articles are just not that easy to read.

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Gigantt (2010-2013 RIP)

Infinite-zoom project management.
Fast, collaborative projects in the cloud.
Gigantt is like Prezi for projects.

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