About
About Aryeh
Twenty years building backend and platform systems, the last decade leading the engineering orgs around them. I care about ownership, reliability, and judgment. Very little about theater.
I started in fintech: real-time, low-latency trading systems where a millisecond mattered and a bad deploy moved money. Two decades later I'm running a 40-person platform org. The throughline never changed: build systems that hold under load, and build teams that own them end to end.
I've scaled engineering through two acquisitions. At Clicktale and then Contentsquare I took session-replay infrastructure from 250k to 50M+ sessions a day, led the post-acquisition integration, and ran 30+ engineers across Israel, France, Spain, and the US. At Evinced I grew 2 teams and 11 people into 7 teams and 40+ across five countries, and stood up GenAI, ML, Data Infra, and DevOps from zero.
I start from trust and give people room early. Strong people get autonomy, scope, and cover; I get involved when ownership goes fuzzy or problems are left to drift. Before adding headcount I find out why a team isn't delivering: ownership gaps, the wrong people, too much noise. I fix that first. Standards stay the same in every time zone.
I'm largely self-taught: BASIC on a Commodore 64, Pascal at 14, a CS degree attempted to earn at night while I was already shipping production code and decided it's not worth it. I work in Hebrew and English, live in Israel, and I'm always up for a good conversation about hard systems.