Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
New York, United States
Technical lead on the Media Delivery Platform team, owning networking and video streaming infrastructure across Android and iOS Snapchat apps.
• Design a dynamic video quality selection framework that improved overall quality by more than 20%.
• Lead a team of 5 senior engineers building product-specific video quality ranking algorithms with ML-based optimization, reducing infrastructure spend by hundreds of thousands annually.
• Collaborate with Verizon, AT&T and other ISPs to optimize video delivery under constrained network conditions.
2015 — 2023
2015 — 2023
New York, United States
Led high-impact initiatives across Meta's Android app portfolio.
• Designed a universal privacy solution adopted by 26 Android apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and more), saving over a year of aggregate developer time — received recognition from a Meta VP.
• Launched Foldable and Tablet support for the Facebook app in collaboration with Samsung and Google.
• Optimized Kotlin compiler build times, unblocking company-wide Kotlin adoption.
• Built core video infrastructure used by all video players in the Facebook app — reliability improvements to video ads increased company revenue by 1%.
• Led the migration of News Feed to a new UI rendering engine, personally tackling the most complex video surface migrations.
2013 — 2015
New York
Chief Android architect for the PX project — a first-of-its-kind TV remote tablet for high-end Samsung TVs.
• Architected critical system components including an AOSP-based custom device OS, TV-controlling Android apps, and an SDK for third-party apps (Netflix, Hulu) to access TV features.
• Managed and mentored 15 Android developers with a strong emphasis on code quality.
• Built and maintained the project's continuous integration server and automated testing infrastructure.
2011 — 2013
2011 — 2013
Lead the development of Any.DO's Android client.
Education
The Open University of Israel
B.A.
2005 — 2010
Mamram IDF Computer Science Program
2003 — 2004