Addi Horowitz

System and software architect, hacker, author and manager. 4 years of R&D management experience. Founded and managed teams and acted as deputy section manager of several teams. Published two technical books (about security over TCP/IP and apps on z/OS) that were sold on Amazon. Background includes: * System architecture - design and implementation * Design and development of various products, from scratch * Launching products * Integration with various technologies, platforms and operating systems * Scale and optimization - quickly reduced run time to %1-%50 in various platforms and technologies * Technology research and analysis * Mentoring startups and engineering teams * Professional services * Backend and Frontend, b2c and b2b Technologies: * Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) * Intranet and Internet architectures (including Web applications, hosting services, mail servers architecture) * Search engines (including speech-to-text data and NLU based search engines) design and development * Mobile and Web apps' design and development (iOS, React, .NET,..) * iOS SDK research, development and integration * Distributed messaging (ZeroMQ, JeroMQ) * Network architecture (mainly TCP/IP) * Various databases architectures and optimization (Postgres, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle.. ). * IR: Lucene, ElasticSearch * Network security, network management and users' management platforms * Disaster recovery plans (DRP) * In-depth knowledge of operating systems like: Linux, Mainframe (z/OS), Windows, Solaris * Cloud services like AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache,..), Heroku * AWS programming (AWS CLI, boto - S3, SQS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache,..) * Software languages include: Python, Java, .Net, Objective-C, C++, JScript, Ruby, Perl and more * OWASP plan and implementation * Audio conversion, network monitoring (SNMP), Ad exchange platform development, plugins development, test automation