Hi there, nice to e-meet and thanks for Visiting!
 
I'm Ken (pronounced Hen), father to Yahli (12) and Maya (10) and life partner to Hadas. I was born in Israel and raised in Israel and Vancouver BC, Canada. I have been leading technology and professionals for a long time and have been enjoying every minute. Continuously contributing. Continuously learning. Continuously improving. Continuously enabling top performing teams, managers, and principles.
I am a strong written and verbal collaborator & communicator to executives and technical professionals alike.
I possess versatile business acumen, entrepreneur spirit, can do attitude and a hands-on technical approach.
I am a proactive go getter and practical leader that gets things done well, and on time.
I hold a Bachelor of Technology in Software Engineering and I am a certified Scrum Master.
 
In 2018 we relocated to Sydney and have been enjoying life ever since, travelling as much  as possible and appreciating the nature and the wildlife.

In addition, I consult pro-bono to technical and community initiatives set to promote the financial well-being of Australian woman and children and contribute to the software entrepreneur community by serving as mentor in residence in the Sydney Start-up Hub. I am proud and grateful to be living in Australia and contributing to the software entrepreneur community.

Technology and people are my passions as well as family time, travelling, history, reading, foreign films and cultures.

EXPERIENCE

2021-2022

Senior Software Engineering Manager

CashD Pty

Sydney, Australia

Leading the development of the CashD Platform. CashD is leading the RTR sector by bringing together open banking, payroll, and financial technologies and is the only responsible B2B solution in Australia.

CLC

I consult early-stage start-ups and public companies on various aspects in various phases of the SDLC, from T-Shirt size estimations to design, implementation, testing and deployment. I help scale local and remote development teams, engage with vendors and partners, setup and sustain technical and cultural infrastructure and define the right Agile processes and tools. In addition, I consult pro-bono to technical and community initiatives set to promote the financial well-being of Australian woman and children and contribute to the software entrepreneur community by serving as mentor in Sydney Start-up Hub.

Hyper-Anna

Continuously generating insightful and actionable business insights is critical to any Financial agile organization but is currently limited to structured dialects, lengthy query development, lengthy gathering of business definitions, data talent in the organization and limited visualization. 

Hyper-Anna was set to ease this by enabling easier financial data exploration by developing an innovative SaaS product which enabled financial data exploration via a non structured, more natural language, advanced insight visualization, system generated insights and more. Hyper-Anna raised high funding, relative to the Australian market, from AirTree Ventures and others and was circa 70 people in its hight, circa half of which were R&D.

Using the product, one would upload a dataset and start asking questions. The results were presented in a way that enabled drill down into the insight, exploring trends and contributing factors. Once we learned that customers are either not sure what to ask or not asking the rights questions,  we developed a new capability to detect anomalies to be suggested as insights. The motivation behind this was to surface insights that are implicitly hidden to the user but deduced by the application following data enrichment and data introspection.

Leading the company operations operations helped me get acquainted quickly with the market in Sydney. Operations included leading the recruitment process, scaling the product, selecting and implementing an APM solution, setting a 3rd tier support and support procedures, managing the relationship with the different cloud providers and overall improving product performance. In addition, I took the initiative to implement security and quality processes. There was great emphasis on personal growth of employees via continues formal/in formal positive and constructive feedback. We prepared a matrix of expected skills and behaviours per each role and level and used it for performance reviews every couple of months employing additional known appraisal methods such as 180/360 degree feedback, ranking and others.

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