Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Tel Aviv University

Kellogg Executive Education

Sojo Industries

Director of Product Development

ChainSafe Systems

Product Director 

Lead Product Manager

• Extracted stakeholder pain points and process bottlenecks to establish the Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Facilitated user interviews, performed end-user research, defined user personas, and observed mental model behaviors.
• Led and empowered the 8-member P&E team of designers and engineers.

David Energy

Head Of Product and Engineering

• Co-founded company to help 45M Americans in resolving student loan debt.
• Designed and deployed the challenger student loan app to disrupt the
student loan industry. Streamlined $500M+ in student loans.
• Generated 25K+ users
• Raised $5M via VC firms such as Kleiner Perkins and angel investors from
Robinhood, Slack, and Dropbox. Featured in Techcrunch.
• Sourced, selected, on-boarded, and oversaw 10+ cross-functional staff.

Pillar (acquired by Acorns)

Co-founder & CTO

• Catapulted engagement by 40%+ via collaborative filtering to generate key recommendations on user preferences.
• Accelerated product shipping by 30% through the design, development, and implementation of tools that simplified daily operations of algorithms and back testing resulting in elevated overall performance.
• Boosted orders by 10% and AOV by 5%.
• Directed, motivated, and mentored junior engineers.

Spring Inc.

Senior Data Engineer

• Grew search engagement by 15%.
• Supervised and coached technical team members.
• Improved customer satisfaction ratings by 10%, resolving search-related
technical issues.

Fiverr (Fiverr.com)

Senior Software Engineer

• Instrumental contributor to the Machine Learning Applications project in
the IBM Labs.
• Distinguished recipient of the most prestigious in-house award for
securing $1B+ in company savings.
• Coordinated project deliverables in accordance to established timelines
with team leaders and team members.
• Outlined product criteria in alignment with roadmaps to drive measurement
of progress.

Gilad K.