Avishay Bar

Security Architect for R&D group that are developing & deploying cloud workloads, securing the whole process - from the development phase, through the DevOps pipeline to production. Mainly focusing on Serverless applications & microservices.

• Working across a development group of ~30 developers, reporting to R&D Group Manager
• Building Secure SDLC process & strategy across the group, writing policies, processes & procedures and enforcing them on group activities
• Leading application security efforts, on front-end technologies and back-end serverless infrastructure & technologies on AWS
• Lead threat modeling sessions on group features
• Organize and present security educational activities to the group members
• Leading compliance efforts for security standards, such as SOC2 and FedRAMP
• Leading hardening efforts for the group products in various technologies, such as cloud hardening, containers hardening and serverless on AWS
• Building security monitoring strategy & pipeline using inhouse & enterprise tools
• Enforcing secure deployment & pipeline efforts
• Acting as a trusted advisor to other R&D teams in the organization

Cloud Initiatives Team - Responsible for creating the templates & orchestration tools required for deploying CyberArk products at scale on premise, in the public / gov cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on Virtual Appliances as well (VMWare VCenter).

Relevant stack - Ansible, Docker, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Templates, Serverless (AWS Lambda & Azure Functions), AWS & Azure Cloud Services, Jenkins.

• Working in a TDD approach. Creating automatic testing environments & CI/CD pipelines.
• Building serverless applications and promoting creative ideas and internal projects as part of continues improving attitude.
• Educating and training another teams in the company in order to help them be more independent on deployment & cloud environments and enhance their skills.

As a CTO, I was responsible for managing the company technological decisions and budget, as well as web development team leadership.

• Managing a team of 2-4 developers & graphics designer.
• Working in an agile environment (Jira, Confluence, Slack, Bitbucket).
• Make the decisions about technology, products architecture, programming languages, frameworks.
• Delivery commitments for long term projects

Finding new product ideas, swim in all the product details and maximizing business value from Geektime's existing products. Concentrated on achieving Geektime's goal, whether it is.

• Characterize the future of Geektime.co.il and Geektime.com
• Shape the Geektime Insider
• Finding & curating the right content to showcase on the Geektime Techfest Code Conference
• Getting requirements from management, Working with the editorial, production & sales teams to bring those ideas to production
• Developing & supporting Geektime's mobile application for iOS & Android
• Managing the development team, both in-house combined with freelancers.

Being both the only Product Manager & Full Stack Developer for almost two years, I was involved in every aspect of the product, from the idea to execution.

• Building and upgrading Geektime.co.il, Geektime.com and Geektime.vn platforms
• Working on both front-end and back-end of Geektime Websites
• Gathering requirements from the Management & other teams (Sales, Editors & Writers, Data Intelligence) and execute them in production

I'm working and researching tech area for creative ideas at innovative space.

• Designing & Building Google Glass app
• Designing & Building Leap motion app
• Producing innovation events, featuring the latest gadgets, technologies & proof of concept items.

Working as a technology reporter for Geektime.co.il website

• Review gadgets and interesting products on the website
• Covering technology news stories
• Covering the global and local tech & startup scene
• Making meaningful connections in the industry
• Analyzing the local scene and sharing personal thoughts about companies and technologies

Being involved on several projects, featured on the internal and international Check Point websites.

• Building the UX & UI of the app.
• Trying bleeding edge technology like React Native to reduce development costs and having a shared codebase for both platforms.
• Building features according to the business needs.
• Supporting customers through issue tracking system.
• Managing beta-testing programs on Crashlytics Beta, Google Play and Apple TestFlight.

• Maintaining the website.
• Moving the website to a scaled environment.
• Adding features to both front end & back end of the website.
• Writing backend code, implementing API for the mobile applications.
• Fixing bugs.
• Working with advertisers & customers and adding features they need.
• Recovering from disasters, database corruptions.
• Securing the website from DDoS attacks.

• Settings up Disaster-recoverable, Scalable environment for multiple Web applications on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk & RDS.
• Export all data from the existing databases.
• Migrate all data to AWS RDS (Aurora).
• Moving from WPEngine git server to Amazon CodeCommit, then to git server on EC2 (Installing Gogs open source software), and later on to Confluence's BitBucket.
• Integrating Jira, Service Desk to build tools (BitBucket).
• Integrating BitBucket with Elastic Beanstalk environment (Using BitBucket Pipelines)
• Moving all 'small' projects to Amazon LightSail & Integrating custom build tools with BitBucket Pipelines (using Node.JS libraries).
• Writing micro services on AWS Lambda.
• Migrate DNS management to AWS Route53.

• Experiment with React Native, developing a npm library with approx 50k users / month.
• Updating the library & compatibility for recent React Native versions.
• Supporting users through the issue tracker on GitHub, solving specific user problems and helping them to better understand how React Native works.
• Working with OneSignal to get their official support to the library.

• Mastering the whole development process, from the idea to the execution.
• Gathering requirements from the Editorial team to build the right backend for them.
• Working with freelance UX & design studio.
• Actively working on the development of the platform.

• Experiment with React Native, developing a npm library with approx 150k users / month.
• Finding our the need for developing a restart package for React Native.
• Managing pull requests, issues on GitHub.
• Updating the library & compatibility for recent React Native versions.

• Experiment with React Native, developing a npm library with approx 7k users / month.
• Based on react-user-avatar library for react, ported for React Native.
• Managing pull requests, issues on GitHub.
• Updating the library & compatibility for recent React Native versions.