Recommendations

Prof. Galit Wellner

I hired Aviv for the design and development of a support system for an experiment I ran with my students. Aviv responded quickly and efficiently. He immediately understood my needs and answered them to the maximum level possible. The system was beautiful and ran smoothly. The implementation phase was very complex with multiple installations in various sites on various platforms. Aviv assisted the students in the installations and made sure that the system operates properly. Throughout the project Aviv was responsive, calm and very pleasant to work with, I highly recommend Aviv for developing a system from scratch and handling complex processes.

Reuven Plevinsky

I have the pleasure to write this letter of recommendation for Aviv Yaniv. I am lecturer at Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University. Aviv had participated in Workshop in Information Security I give during his studies of Computer Science degree. During last 5 years, I have taught dozens of students, Aviv is one of a few students which were not only interesting in getting a good grade, but also in the technical aspects of creativity and deep understanding. At final assignment of the course, which included an analysis of real vulnerability and generic code leak detection he received maximus score. Got a grade 100 which reflects knowledge, efforts, and intelligence belongs to the top of the curve. He has astonishing abilities and always the first student to understand every lecture, and always wanted to know more. I believe that any program that looks for young, talented student will enjoy Aviv high skills and motivation.

Nadav Dadon

Aviv has worked as a programmer in a challenging big project under time restrictions. Aviv is a thorough researcher with excellent learning abilities and vast knowledge, in addition to great social skills with the team and co-workers. He has a kind, initiative and ambitious character.

Emanuel Fadlun

Aviv and I have been teammates for the past two and a half year. He has great capabilities in both client and server side development in which he demonstrated profound knowledge and understandings in every aspect of development, from design to technologies. Furthermore, he is also a very hard and passionate worker that loves to help if necessary.

Alex Dvorkin

Aviv is a very strong software engineer that shows great managerial capabilities. We won the Microsoft Hackathon with more than 20 engineers and data scientists, where he designed the whole pipeline architecture by consulting the relevant stakeholders. When engineers weren't sure what direction to take, he eagerly helped to make the right decision. Aviv has great personal skills, it's fun to work with him, he is always here to help. He has a very quick grasp of complex concepts and comes up with solutions.

Yihezkel (Ne Jason) Schoenbrun

Aviv is a rare gem who's a master of technical domains, a great, fun and interesting friend, and who's always trying to learn more and improve. Aviv is our guru for many things, including some complex domains like autoscaling. His implementations make the complex seem simple, thanks to intelligent design, implementation and metrics reporting. Everyone enjoys working with Aviv, because he's just fun to be around. He's smart, but humble. He has good ideas, but listens to others. He works hard, but also makes the time to hang out. It's notable how much he knows and continues to push himself, including in domains that would at least for me be well outside my comfort zone. I'm very fortunate to work with Aviv. I enjoy my job more in part because I get to work with him!

Sagiv Frankel

Aviv is hard-working and dedicated, both as a developer and as a friend. He takes his duties and responsibilities seriously and walks the extra mile to resolve issues and meet customer needs. Super intelligent and super knowledgeable individual. He took on a complex service that algorithmically predicts and optimizes customers' needs. With many moving parts and edge cases, he played a leading and critical role in taking the service to production.

Lilach Shalev-Mevorach

Aviv is a bright software engineer who combines analytic approach and skills with open minded and creative problem-solving abilities. In my lab he developed a new software aimed at analyzing and summarizing personal attention profiles, providing a user-friendly tool that suggests how to interpret the results. Aviv started with a thorough investigation of the users’ needs. Then, he learned the process that was used in the lab before, identified different frequent and infrequent problems and then planned very carefully a solution that upgraded and streamlined the complex process. Importantly, he produced various solutions, addressing needs of different groups of users. Finally and crucially, he prepared clear documentation and a manual explaining how to work with the new tool. On top of his outstanding professional ‘tool kit’, Aviv is highly motivated, humble, always willing to help and share his wisdom with others and strives to deepen his knowledge and abilities - a true asset!

Iris Kaminer

Aviv is also a highly motivated and results-oriented individual. He is always willing to go the extra mile to get the job done. Aviv is a very talented and meticulous engineer. He leads the auto scale development in Azure Data Explorer (ADX). The auto scale algorithm has been highly effective in optimizing the cost/performance of the ADX service. Aviv is a great communicator and team player. He is always happy to join Customer meetings to understand their issues and then provide a quick resolution to their problems. It is a real pleasure working with Aviv!

Ofir Sharon

Aviv is a kind of professional that I have the pleasure of writing a recommendation for! Aviv and I are teammates for over a year and a half in one of the dev teams in the Azure Data Explorer ("Kusto") group at Microsoft. I am inspired by Aviv's passion for code and strive for excellence. His keen eye for details is only one of the derivatives of that. In the time I've known him, Aviv has managed to take ownership of the Autoscale feature in ADX. This is a major feature we expose to customers in order to achieve optimized performance and cost of Kusto clusters in a self-managed way. Aviv is highly customer-oriented. His high standards professionally result in both quick and insightful mitigations of incidents, and positive relationship with customers within and outside Microsoft. Furthermore, Aviv is a great friend. His vibes around the office are ALWAYS positive, and he genuinely cares. I frankly believe Aviv is a great contributor for any organization and I highly recommend him without hesitation.

Alon Bebchuk

Working with Aviv is a privilege. His sharp technical skills are evident in elegant code and ability to tackle complex problems. In addition to his technical capabilities, he also has strong leadership skills. Aviv fosters a collaborative, supportive atmosphere where everyone feels empowered to share knowledge and grow. Aviv proactively enhances systems and the team's quality, constantly raising the bar. His guidance and mentorship have made me a better developer, and I'm grateful to have learned from him. Any team would be lucky to have Aviv.

Shani Gitelman

I recommend Aviv for his exceptional dedication and enthusiasm towards work. Collaborating with Aviv across teams has consistently proven invaluable, as they contribute significantly to the success of projects he oversee. Aviv demonstrates remarkable problem-solving abilities, ensuring that projects are delivered successfully on a global scale. Aviv's positive attitude and strong work ethic are truly contagious, inspiring those around him. Moreover, his leadership skills shine through, guiding teams towards success in every endeavor.

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Curriculum Vitae

GAMFA

Microsoft

Senior Software Development Engineer

Microsoft
September 2023 - Present ( Years, Months)

● TechLeading AutoScale across all Kusto Services, responsibility includes;
1. Leadership: working with team members of different teams to create new AutoScale solutions, from the research phase, through development and deployment and monitoring
2. Guidance and Mentoring: working with team members across other teams who develop AutoScale for their services, by guidance and approval
3. Research and Development: keep improving and perfecting existing AutoScale solutions by actively measuring and gathering metrics and client feedback
● Working with OpenAI model, using Semantic Kernel, and PoC ideas with Chat and Embedding models and integration to service
● Mentoring and buddying: developing tool together with two students from Tel-Aviv University, to evaluate AI algorithms accuracy
● Detection, leading investigations, and providing solutions to bugs and incidents in the team's service

Software Development Engineer II

Microsoft
Juny 2021 - September 2023 (2 Years, 4 Months)

● TechLeading AutoScale of Kusto Services, by leading, mentoring & developing responsibility includes;
1. Technical Excellence: Improving AutoScale logic and addressing testability gaps, detecting and investigating elusive bugs and solving them, implementation of data science aspects
2. Livesite: Identifying, troubleshooting and mitigating AutoScale related incidents, monitoring, quality verification
3. Data Driven: Emitting telemetry to support building a dashboards, measure customers adoption
4. Collaboration: Working with PMs, DataScientists and Engineers from other teams to provide a holistic solution and ensure customers best scaling experience
5. Growth Mindset: Trying new approaches, measuring impact and improve.
● Taking Kusto Predictive AutoScale from Private Preview to General Announcement (being globally available to all customers with Optimized AutoScale);
development, detection and investigation of elusive bugs and solving them, implementation of data science aspects, monitoring, and quality verification
● Allowing E2E deployment of Kusto
● Integrating and cooperating with HashiCorps to allow deployment with Terraform
● Detection, management and providing solutions to bugs and incidents in the team's service
● Hardening and monitoring the service interface: by protecting against attacks and throttling
● Mentoring and training new team members and ops (before completing first year)
● Side projects:
 ◈ [Internal] Quick Investigation Tool : Allows focused investigation, alerting on regressions and providing with vital information to quick detect which direction to take
 ◈ [Public] Tool for Comparing KQL Queries: Saves time and tedious manual work for validations during refactoring of a KQL query and checks that the new version is compatible
 ◈ [Public] Tool for Anomaly Detection in KQL: Covering both missing rows gaps and invalid values anomalies
 ◈ [Public] ARM Template Dependencies Graph Validator: Converts an ARM Template dependencies to a directed Graph and validates it

Additional:
● Architect of 1st Place Winnng Team, Ecosystem Category @ Microsoft 2022 Hackathon
We've been working with a group of analysts whose role is to find similar patients as needed by the physicians (this may be for different use cases: similar diagnosis, similar symptoms, etc).
As the architect I've broke done the requirements into working pipeline design and cooperated with the team members (engineers, data scientists, ops and analysts) till the successful demonstration of the project, while managing the backend team and tackling the challenges that rised.
Before our project, the analysts team was doing this work manually by using a general search for words in the free text and other manual search methods. The goal of the project is to create an AI application for this group that will use Azure Text Analytics for Health along with an ML algorithm to create an output of similar patients for an input of one single patient ID.

Freelance

During Degree at Tel-Aviv University

In Charge of Development Engineering at the Attention Lab for Children

Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
Mar 2019 – Mar 2020 (1 Year, 1 Month)

● In Charge of Development Engineering in all aspects of the Attention Lab for Children at Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
● Developing new software that analyzes examinees' results and offers insights
● Designing the software required a deep understanding of a whole new professional domain, as well as communicating and formalizing my clients' needs
● Adjustment and maintenance of all existing laboratory softwares, which requires out of the box solutions to keep up with the changing requirements

Software Development Engineer at Research of Attention in Elderly People

Tel-Aviv University
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018 (3 Months)

● Programming the software from scratch, that required a deep understanding of customer needs and tailoring the technological solution
● Developing the software involved thorough inspection and analysis of the games to obtain measurements in real-time while they are being played
● Program developed in C# and python

Academic Education

Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Sceince & Economics

Tel-Aviv University
2016-2020

● GPA of 85 (in both majors)
● Managing a team of student scholarships, Together we created and organized lectures about practical knowledge in bars
● Freshman Mentor, of up to 20 students prior to their freshmen year and throughout their first semester
● Activities and Societies: International Week IWCO, Friedberg Economics Institute Member

Military Service

IDF
4 Years, 4 Months

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Feb 2014 – Jun 2015 (1 Year, 5 Months)

● Full-stack development of management project built from scratch
● Research and integration of many technologies including, and not restricted to: WASP, POI, Web Services, Gson, Logging
● Creating team training in Moodle template

Additional:
● Team manager in "CTO Lead" Hackathon (IDF and Google cooperation hackathon that took place at Google Campus in Tel Aviv).
Prototyped a carpooling app for soldiers, back at the time carpooling hasn't been as popular as today.

Technologies:
● Server-side consisting of Play Framework and Java, and utilizes Spring and Hibernate
● Asynchronous frameworks over AKKA
● Development with Spring and Data-Base access through Hibernate Criteria to an Oracle DB
● Client-Side consisting of AngularJS, designed with Bootstrap and CSS on HTML5
● Revision control with Git

Enterprise Software Developer

Feb 2013 – Feb 2014 (1 Year, 1 Month)

● Adding features and new capabilities to an enterprise project
● Developing and leading the team training program

Additional:
● Team manager of 1st place winning team in the unit's robotics competition.
Built a robot using Arduino and Samsung S3, connected with a serial interface and operating both manually and automatically, to recognize balloons with OpenCV.

Technologies:
● Server-side consisting of Java code and SQL and reports using Oracle Reports
● User interface with Oracle Forms
● Working with Ant and Unix
● Oracle DB

Embedded Software Developer

Mar 2011 – Feb 2013 (2 Years)

● Developing Embedded projects of high stability and reliability
● Programming in high-security standards
● In charge of the team training

Technologies:
● Programming in C++ and C
● Real-Time operation systems: VxWorks and ThreadX
● Revision control with SVN

Software Development Course "Mamram"

IDF C4I & Cyber Security Directorate Internship
Sep 2010 – Mar 2011 (7 Months)

Education

Weizmann Institute of Science

Excellence program for software engineering students in Weizmann institute (During High School)
2009-2010

The program included two-years after school activities:
First-year:
✯ Lectures from professionals about diverse topics of computer science
Second-year (for excellent students):
✯ Developing software for encryption and steganography of data in pictures.

Ahad Ha'am

Software Engineering & Physics
2006-2010

● Scholarship for Excellence in Studies (given to a single student in the cohort)
● Bagrut average of 113
● Excelled in software engineering (10 degrees, final grade 99.5), physics (5 degrees, final grade 99), math (5 degrees, final grade 95) and English (5 degrees, final grade 95)




quality work
Recently done project

Cortex

Ultra flexibale and durable brain-comuter-interface large-scale project, which enabels to upload and view users telemetry data.

Big Data; Uber Forecast In New York

Forecasting future trends and demands for Uber in Manhattan, New-York

Linux Kernel Firewall

FireWall developed in C on Linux Kernel, capable of handling SSH, DLP module and self-developed protection from SSH LibAuth bypass AKA CVE-2018-10933.

Project Euler

Solved 100 problems, Level 4, Top 1.3 percentile

Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.

Natural Language Processing

Python Challenge

Reached: Level 33 and last

Python Challenge is a Notpron-like game in which each level can be solved by Python programming.

Algorithms and Applications in Social Networks

Techniques for Improving Software Productivity

Sudoko Solver