Welcome

You don't pull no punches but you can't push the river.

tl;dr

Technical and business Analysis, architecture, development, QA, performance testing, infra-as-code, product rollouts, programme management.

Time flies! I've been in software for more than three decades!

What brought me hither

  • Empathy; putting myself in my client's shoes, feeling their pain, authentic; Taking their side; Crafting solutions together
  • Reading the room; Compassionate, creative, humble, helping, taking initiative, allowing space for the team, receptive
  • Starting conversations; Passionate, energetic, resourceful, respectful, inclusive, forgiving, coaching, encourage others to speak up
  • Instilling a sense of urgency with a bias for action
  • Love to learn, exposing my ignorance, good listener

All the things to understand the stakeholders' context and being prepared to help, guide, and lead.

My passions


agile (small ‘a’): improving delivery by reducing batch size, and value at risk

Working in a start-up culture starting with the goal, and working backwards to visualize product evolution

A bias for action

...passions



Leading teams through coaching while practicing XP (especially TDD and BDD)

Solving problems (human, technical, managerial, political) through collaboration towards shared goals

...passions


Studying the VSM: assessing, and optimizing

Automating everything, including semantic monitoring and remediation

Rapid innovation through trial and error, and learning from feedback

...passions


Making decisions at the last responsible moment

Facilitating inceptions and formulating a shared understanding to guide MVPs

“Fuck it, ship it”

I try to avoid


Following a process without being able to influence it

Big up-front design

Succumbing to the status-quo

Star communications topology

Using tickets instead of interacting with people

What I fight against


Death by PowerPoint
A culture where there is no feedback, or where it is ignored
Governance by fiat or dogma
Collusion in Waterfall conspiracies

A little trivia

Progressive Jazz, Tennis
Israeli, French and US citizenships
Hebrew, French, English and some Spanish
Occasional speaker at conferences and meetups
Occasional volunteer at Black Girls Code and Women Who Code
Co-authored a patent for Network identity management system and method
I love to cook, bake bread, eat, and wash the dishes