About
Software engineer with a product and design sensibility — built on psychology, education, and work across four countries.
- 2013–2014
Educational Emissary — Toronto
- Led educational and community programs abroad for a year of service.
- Built early experience in public speaking, facilitation, and cross-cultural communication.
- 2014–2016
Israel Defense Forces — Instructor & Team Lead
- Served as a Spike missile-systems instructor, then promoted to head of instructors.
- Designed and delivered training programs for new instructors.
- Developed leadership, instruction, and high-stakes communication skills.
- 2016–2017
Educational Emissary — Washington, D.C.
- Designed and ran education and outreach programs for diverse audiences.
- Organized large-scale events and managed multiple stakeholders.
- Strengthened communication, teaching, and program-management skills.
- 2017–2020
Foundations in Communication & Psychology
- Built public-speaking and live-performance experience.
- Developed early foundations in psychology and human behavior.
- 2020–2021
B.A. Studies — Tel-Hai College
- Began a degree focused on Psychology and East Asian Studies.
- Started tutoring statistics, including students with learning disabilities.
- 2021–2022
Statistics Tutor
- Tutored 40+ college students in statistics.
- Achieved top marks in statistics coursework.
- Sharpened quantitative, analytical, and teaching skills.
- 2023
Full-Stack Engineering Training
- Completed the Coding Academy full-stack bootcamp.
- JavaScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, and modern web development.
- Transitioned from psychology and education into software engineering.
- Mid 2023
Software Engineer — Plannie
- Built frontend features and third-party integrations.
- Shipped payments, SMS, and WhatsApp functionality.
- Resolved customer-facing technical issues across support and engineering.
- 2023–2024
Expanded Engineering Scope
- Worked across Angular, Vue, React, Node.js, AWS, Twilio, payments, and calendar integrations.
- Took ownership of increasingly complex problems.
- Became a trusted point of contact for difficult technical issues.
- 2024
B.A. in Psychology & East Asian Studies
- Completed the degree with a dual major.
- Conducted academic research and wrote seminar papers on behavior, identity, and East Asian studies.
- 2024–2025
Mandarin Studies & Remote Engineering — Taipei
- Awarded a Huayu Scholarship to study Mandarin at NTNU (Mandarin Training Center).
- Balanced full-time language study with remote software engineering.
- Gained cross-cultural fluency working across time zones and cultures.
- 2024–2025
Design, Branding & Web for Musicians
- Designed posters, branding, and visual identities for musicians and cultural projects.
- Built and shipped websites for artists and events.
- Combined engineering, design, and visual storytelling end to end.
- 2025
Expanding into Product & UX
- Deepened focus on UX/UI design and product management.
- Moved from pure engineering toward human-centered, product-driven work.
- 2025
Independent Product Projects
- FairTips — a restaurant tip calculator.
- Wheel of Imagination — a children's creativity app.
- Lead-generation tools and user-retention dashboards.
- AI and WhatsApp automation prototypes.
- 2025–2026
Product Engineer — Muza
- Engineered a product-focused project in close collaboration with founders and stakeholders.
- Drove product thinking and user-experience decisions alongside the build.
- 2026
Relocating to Boston
- Moving to the Boston area and available for new opportunities.
- Open to roles in product management, customer success, solutions engineering, and UX/design.
- Focused on human-centered technology.