Zohar Etzioni is an accomplished software development leader with nearly 20 years of industry and academic experience. He has excelled in multiple domains, including billing, networks, financial services, and algo trading systems. He has solid experience in large and complex distributed systems development in both startup and large corporate environments. Zohar has a strong background and experience in technical leadership through the full development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to deployment. He is an expert in programming with Java and Scala and has also been involved in entrepreneurial ventures as CTO and co-founder. Zohar has studied at several esteemed universities, including Trinity College Dublin and Tel Aviv University. He has held various roles, including project supervisor for software engineering Master's students at the University of Oxford, Algo Trading Consultant at Morgan Stanley, Co-founder & CTO at PDX Technology, Vice President, Algorithmic Trading at Citi, and Technical Leader at Cisco Systems. He was also previously an instructor at the Open University and held software engineering roles at SuperDimension and Amdocs.