Startup Advisor

Assaf
Lavie

a@assaf.io EB2F 2DF5 D9B9 E053

Helping startups make early-stage decisions about technology, product, and hiring.

Clients

Valence

Freelance

Cyber SaaS POC (stealth mode 🤐); Robotic process automation.

  • Golang
  • Typescript
  • Kubernetes
  • Playwright

Tensorleap

Advisor

Product, back-end architecture, observability.

  • Kubernetes
  • Node
  • Terraform
  • CDK

Wix

Back-end Architecture Consulting

Improving runtime isolation of an in-house serverless platform for idempotent, side-effect free, cacheable functions.

  • Serverless
  • Kubernetes
  • Node
  • Docker

Clear

DevOps Consulting

Speeding up the development cycle of a Kubernetes-based settlement solution. Implementing CI, testing and automated deployments cross-cloud and on-prem.

  • Kubernetes
  • Node
  • CircleCI
  • DevOps

Env0

Product & Business Development

Productizing Infrastructure-as-Code by offering on-demand, cross-cloud environments on top of Terraform.

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Biz-Dev
  • Product

Lumigo

AWS Consulting

Cloud architecture for a serverless troubleshooting & distributed tracing product.

  • AWS
  • λ
  • CDK
  • Python
  • Fargate
  • Golang

Amenity Analytics

Serverless All the Things!

Back-end rebuilt from scratch to increase scale 100x.
Staff training in serverless, cloud-native development and dev/ops methodology.
Zero snowflakes, 100% infrastructure-as-code.

  • Training
  • Multi-Account AWS
  • ETL
  • CI/CD
  • λ
  • SLS
  • Python
  • Honeycomb

Binaris

Cloud Technologist

High-perf function-as-a-service on top of AWS.
Rebuilding Lambda without cold starts. No big deal.
Lots of obsessing over milliseconds.

  • Architecture
  • Performance Optimization
  • Node
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Nginx

Meta Networks

Cloud Dev/Ops

Infrastructure as code using the terrible™️(Terraform + Ansible) stack.

  • AWS
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

CloudShare

Product & POCs

Technological research and POCs for a cross-cloud integration project (AWS, Azure, Rackspace). Expanding the company's Dev & Test offering with product work, technical blogging and showcases.

  • Blogging
  • Product
  • Docker
  • Golang
  • Jenkins-Plugin

Forter

Freelance

Securing several large ELK deployments using SearchGuard.

  • ElasticSearch
  • Kibana
  • Logstash
  • Docker
  • Chef
  • OpenSSL

Spartacs

Interim CTO

Back-end architecture and dev-ops for an ad-tech system designed to scale to millions of req/second with low latency. Helped build the R&D by recruiting a CTO and developers.

  • Serverless
  • λ
  • Redshift
  • ETL
  • Docker
  • Recruiting

Optibus

Cloud Ops

Transitioning from bare-metal to production-grade AWS.

  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • CloudFormation
  • Jenkins

Singular

Cloud Back-End

Large-scale AWS back-end architecture.

  • Docker
  • CloudFormation
  • Ansible
  • Node
  • ELK
  • Grafana

MailWise

Cloud Architecture

Design and setup of server-side architecture for a mobile email app.

  • AWS
  • Flask
  • Swagger
  • Mongo
  • IMAP

Stratoscale

UX/UI

UX design and development of a data-center management web application.

  • Photoshop
  • Backbone
  • SASS
  • D3
  • CoffeeScript
  • Node