About
Hi, I'm Ahmad.
Experienced in leading architecture across startups and enterprise organizations, modernizing legacy systems, defining technical strategy, and delivering highly available production platforms.
I started at Amdocs building telecom systems at enterprise scale, then spent three years at Yad2, Israel's largest online marketplace, where I moved from engineer to engineering manager and grew the team from 2 to 13 while re-platforming to Node.js, Python, and microservices.
As a founding engineer at Stratyfy I built a fintech platform from an empty repository to enterprise customers, and later led its engineering. At Fyllo I guided the decomposition of a large monolith and shipped machine-learning features across a 30-person, six-country organization.
Today I work on high-throughput IoT platforms at Lytx, where the ingestion architecture I designed handles more than 500K events per second. Alongside that, I help companies with architecture reviews, platform modernization, and engineering leadership.
Hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, event-driven systems, and building engineering cultures focused on ownership, quality, and execution.
How I work
Principles
Boring infrastructure, interesting products
The best architecture is the one your team can operate at 3am. I favor proven building blocks, clear service boundaries, and observability over novelty.
Incremental over big-bang
Every monolith I have decomposed was done while the business kept shipping. Migrations are planned as a sequence of safe, reversible steps.
Ownership scales, heroics do not
Teams that own their services end to end deliver faster and sleep better. I build the reviews, standards, and tooling that make ownership possible.
Write it down
Decisions, trade-offs, and runbooks live in documents, not in one person's head. It is how teams onboard in days instead of months.
Education
Background
B.Sc. Computer Science
University of Haifa · Haifa, Israel
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Brandeis University & MIT · Boston, MA, United States