Tel Aviv University

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Boys Town Jerusalem High School

Software Engineer at Facebook

Fixer in Trust & Safety organization. Working on identity, authentication, security, and prevention of fraud & abuse.

Databricks

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Founding member of organization to prevent data misuse by third parties. Technical Lead and Fixer in a ~100 person org. Fighting against scraping attacks, bad bots, API abuse and ad fraud.

Key accomplishments:
* Significantly reduced scraping activity across Facebook, Instagram and Oculus. Successfully took legal action against third party actors to stop data misuse.
* Systematically finding scraping attacks, fixing privacy / security vulnerabilities, fixing performance and capacity issues
* My personal findings and fixes saved many millions of dollars to the company, prevented big issues, and changed the rules on the battlefield against scraping
* Played a key role in designing and building word class Bot Detection system, Rate Limits Everywhere system, Data classification and Enforcement sub-systems
* Maturing Facebook’s Privacy Program in the scaping domain. Author of Best Practices for Safeguarding User Data, from External Data Misuse.
* Led Threat Queue, risk assessment and collaboration with Red team companies and Bug bounty program

Author of few internal Hackathon productivity tools which are in daily use by thousands of employees.
* FBUrl - internal tiny URL service and Chrome extension
* Decoder - internal tool to decode pretty much anything into something meaningful
* Payslip - show me my next payslip

Software Engineer

Fullstack engineer in Facebook Analytics group. Facebook's popular analytics solution that allows businesses to measure every aspect of their business from their performance on their website, mobile app to their investments in Instagram, Pages and Ads.

Key accomplishments:
* Design and build the backend solution for real-time analytics at FB scale
* Build and shipped SDKs for mobile App and Web developers
* Fixer and contributor in big initiative from Cambridge Analytica scandal
* Presenter at F8 conference

Note:  In late 2021 Facebook Analytics as a standalone product was retired and consolidated into the Meta business tools suite.

Technical lead and "go to person" in File Processing and Cloud Protection teams.
Designing entire File Processing pipeline in the Cloud and road map for moving away from costly on premise solutions to Azure using Service Fabric.
Designing and building a reliable, highly available, cost effective, compliant, distributed malware files storage system in Azure with permission model, retention policy, low latency and high throughput.
Author of a very elegant solution (patent pending) to address backward compatibility with existing on-premise systems & storage with all malware files being stored in the new system in the Cloud.
Co-Author of the entire E2E engineering process for entire group, starting from Git up to many auto deployments per day to all the regions in different geos.

Author of Azure Key Vault Explorer - allows extremely productive way to work with secrets and certificates. The tool spread viral across the company and in hands of few hundreds engineers and Ops in many teams in the company.

Microsoft - One Protection group in WDG division

Principal Software Engineer

Working on the following security products at the endpoint level (Client side) and in the cloud (Service side):
* Windows Defender 8
* Microsoft Security Essentials
* Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
* System Center Endpoint Protection 2012
* Windows Intune Endpoint Protection

Technical lead for in-house productivity tools for Antimalware researchers.
Author of Cosmos Drive. Cosmos Drive maps your Cosmos virtual cluster(s) of any scale as a local read-only disk(s) or local folder(s) to access the Cosmos files or streams directly from the Windows environment with any tool or application. Cosmos Drive comes with an easy installation and configuration that seamlessly integrates any Cosmos virtual cluster as a virtual disk or virtual folder. It allows users to consume the data available in Cosmos with the same tools and experience with which they consume any other data.
Cosmos Drive has 700+ unique users across many divisions in Microsoft.
Cosmos Drive was submitted to Engineering Excellence 2013 Award.
Author of Cosmos Far Plugin, which enables to work with Cosmos BigData internally with Far manager. Cosmos Far plugin got so popular, so it is just preinstalled on 500K+ nodes in the company.

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Developer Engineer in Client Management Protection (CMP) group.

Senior SDE

Lead the development team of Microsoft Security Essentials application with Microsoft high quality demands, in the following aspects: Performance, Code coverage, Localization, Supportability, Accessability, Usability, Legality, Telemetry and Recoverability. My responsibilities include: Agile developement, SCRUM master, design review, code review, unit tests, cross group collaboration and people development.
I was also Security champion of entire product, driving Security development life cycle (SDL) and penetration tests on all components in the product.

Microsoft - Israel R&D Center

Senior Dev Lead

Development of 3D scanning system for dental CAD/CAM applications. Building a prototype, alpha and final system. Co-author of 2 patents. Work with customers, exhibitions and customer support around the world.
Development included:
•	System architecture and design
•	Building completely new team
•	Management of 5 programmers team
•	Designing and writing protocol for real-time data acquisition through Ethernet (IP/UDP)
•	Computational Geometry – surface reconstruction algorithms and holes detection
•	Machine vision – edge detection algorithms
•	Image Processing filters and algorithms
•	3D visualization – Online cloud of points viewer, 3D models viewer (STL)
•	Programming and controlling various DC and Stepper motors
•	Integration with other CAD applications (WebService over WCF)

Optimet Ltd

Team Leader & Software Application Engineer

Management of 5-6 programmers team working on multiple projects. Products delivery from idea and proposal step to application release step.
Responsibilities included:
• Team leadership
• Interviewing candidates
• Research
• Compilation of needs and requirements
• Solution design
• Planning and design of various tasks and monitoring 
• Participating in development
• Bugs and problems solving aid
• System deployment

Israeli Military Intelligence

Software Team Leader and Senior Software Engineer

Architect and developer of software infrastructure for algorithmic research tools developers, from design to release. Design in N-Tier architecture using OO design patterns. Working with the customers and decision making.
Development included:
• Prototype and proof of concept
• Rich MDI client environment
• Compilation and runtime engine
• Command and control service
• Focus on easy-to-use API
• .NET remoting and multi-threading
• SQL Server (ADO.NET)
• Language interoperability (pure C++, Managed C++, C#)
• Platform SDK for IO, sockets, threads and fibers
• User manual documentation (HTML, PDF, CHM)
• Protocol production modules development: Sniffing, IP, TCP, UDP, HDLC, FTP, HTTP

System Architect and Senior Software Engineer

• 3-Tier (Client/Server/DB) Java multi-platform (Sun/PC) application to store and retrieve protocol tree after sniffing and production systems. Focus on performance and stability. Working with Oracle SQL special features. Development of advanced query and result forms.
• 2-Tier (Client/DB) Delphi application to store and retrieve ELINT (electromagnetic intelligence) information. Writing requirements and design documents. Development of smart parser to parse huge text files and automatically fill the DB.

Programmer and DB Administrator

Development of Web interactive graphics engine for IE and Netscape, which allows product color composition on woman’s face. The engine is used on L'Oreal, Maybeline and other cosmetic brands Web sites. More than 1 million users are registered and use this technology around the world. Development included:
•	Sophisticated composition algorithms to achieve realistic product color application on the user’s face
•	Full three-tier architecture was implemented
•	Designing and writing engine using ActiveX technology, ASP,  XML, ISAPI, Web Services technologies were applied
•	Writing in-house tools for operators: Image preprocessing, semi-automatic face regions recognition, QA process
•	Implementing multi-channel image format with high compression and security to keep user data privacy
•	Writing import/export plug-in for Adobe Photoshop 5.5 to support the custom format

EZface

Development of industrial OEM library and GUI system for Win32 for 2D/3D objects scan and 2D/3D image processing. Work with customers, exhibitions and customer support around the world. Development included:
•	Real-Time digital signal processing algorithms, spectrum analysis for the signal collected using frame grabber
•	Designing and writing protocol for real-time data acquisition through LPT port from Probe system, including drivers development for Win98/NT
•	Programming and controlling various DC and Stepper motors
•	Mathematics algorithms for profile analysis
•	Writing in-house tools for validation, calibration and QA process of the Probe system

Development of management system for production process of light-emitting wires. The system managed machines, storehouses, quality assurance, queries, reports, stickers and barcodes.
•	Writing real–time application to measure diameter and ovality of wire
•	Network administration, Novell 4.11

Elam Ltd.

Programmer and System Administrator

Novell 3.5 and Windows 3.1 network administration, writing TSR defense programs against games and viruses.
Development of IDE environment for TASM programming, which included full Applic board emulation.

System Administrator

Development of “Master Array Map” – industrial GUI system that allows engineering and controlling of Wafers at Sort department in many fabrics around the world.

Intel (Fab8 Jerusalem)

Programmer

Development of “VBX Wizard” – tool for software developer to build VBXs (Visual Basic Custom Controls) in languages: Delphi, BPW, BC++ & VC++
“VBX Wizard” awarded to be a member of Microsoft Component Builders Program by Microsoft Corporation
Development of “Task Manager for Win95” – processes and modules management tool for Windows 95.

Elisa Zoli