Refael is an experienced Engineering Manager. A tech savvy with strong interpersonal and business skills. He is a quick adopter, outside of the box thinker, team player and a leader who believes that ambition, big heart and wide smile are the key elements for success.
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(+972) 50-330-7197
Tel Aviv, Israel
My technological stack mainly consist of open source technologies and cloud services. I am a javascript advocate for NodeJS and web frameworks (e.g Angular/Js, React, Backbone) but comfortable with more traditional languages (e.g Java, C#) For my full stack, please visit: stackshare
I work closely with Product, Sales and other peer teams to provide polished E2E solutions. Responsible for release plannings and scrum/kanban management. Strongly believes that great engineering should serve great product.
I am a mentor at heart. Constantly striving for rich engineering cloture, knowledge sharing and empowering other team members.
I love what I do and love mixing business with pleasure.
Build and lead the R&D dept. in Avantis Team, which consist of 2 SCRUM teams, includes JS full stack dvelopers, BI developers (python) and data scientist. The group uses top notch technologies such as Snowflake DB, node.js and python in the backend, React.js and vanila in the frontend and extensive use in AWS cloud services.
As part of my role, I own the SCRUM management of both teams and work closely with the sales team to provide the required engineering aspect in customer facing processes.
Lead a group of high skilled full stack developers, focusing on innovative projects along with large scale production oriented execution. Lead the adoption of scrum methodologies and assisting tools, newer technological stack and development-management tools. Work closely with research, product and sales team to deliver sleek POCs and demoing tools.
Founded 'Verint Good Hub' - a cross organisation volunteering project of software development for charity purposes.
Lead the Apps Team to deliver slick web applications, while meeting their goals and increasing the team's capacity. Develop and escort features from PRD stage to production. Responsible for time estimations and scrum management. Technical leadership and mentoring. Empower team members to build a passionate and unified engineering cloture.
Hands on with ES6, AngularJS,Angular2(Typescript), HTML(5), CSS(3) with extensive use of OO vanilla JS and reusable web components architecture. Developing and extending Node.js based API-gateway layer
Lecturer in a wide range of courses in the fields of: OOP, Desgin patterns,CPP, C#, JS and Web development
Shigusa is a gesture based educational gaming system empowered by AI.
Front end developer on a SAAS project written in pure JavaScript and Backbone.js. My role also included extending and modifying the server support (Java). The work was handled according to the Agile methodology.
As part of my work I elaborate with hardware developers and project leaders from the North American HW market. I tailor connectivity software solutions according to their project requirements and provide professional coding development assistance from early stages to product delivery.
The Therapeutic Touch is a British retail company, trading in organic cosmetics. The company owns several retail spots in shopping centers and a massive retailer / exhibitor in most trade shows and exhibitions held in the UK.
Academic College of Tel Aviv - Jaffa - B.Sc in Computer Science, 2008-2012
Beyond technology and creation, I like motorcycles, travelling and camping. I spent a year and a half of my life travelling in south-east Asia and Australia by motorcycles. Probably the best time of my life...
I also like community volunteering, so I created Taykey for the community (TFTC) at my current workplace, where we teach youth at risk web development, and take parts in many other projects off-work.