Costa Shapiro

is engineering software since the early 90's:

• Over a decade of development leadership experience
• The first owned and paid project while still in high school
• A total of 10 years of formal computer science education
• With the Internet and its whole stack of technologies since early days
• Business pragmatism and delivery orientation, and also, organisational flexibility

Studies

1999–2003

Technion (CSD) – M.Sc. in Computer Science (cum laude)

• “Object-Oriented Implementation of Reconciliations” (Reconciliations in Java) thesis

1995–1998

Technion (CSD) – B.A. in Computer Science (cum laude)

1991–1994

BOSMAT (Automatic Data Processing course) – Speciality Matriculation Certificate

Jobs

2019–Present

Software engineering consulting at costa works

• Self-server platform assembly, offering the complete whole-stack container-based personal "operating system" for rapid prototyping of classical centralised systems or next-gen peer-to-peer systems' deployment
• BDD and various system specification level expertise
• Technical leadership in ML-heavy backend architectures in start-up projects
• Open-source video production pipeline component implementation and integration
• Public speaking and private consulting on R&D processes and tools
• Data extraction, processing and presentation works
• – Docker, cloud resource providers (GCP, AWS etc); Python-based ML, Ruby-based management and administration; Rust-based high-performance binary processing optimisation; Golang-based system modules; Erlang-based high-throughput microservices; many more data management systems and protocols

2017–2019

Server Team Leader / Chief Security Officer, and then, CTO at Owlytics Healthcare

• System back-end development & maintenance, including of large-data-volume analytical components
• Information security compliance planning & supervision
• Data ingestion / stream processing system architecture and execution
• Wearable sensor data ML research for healthcare
• Full data ingest+analysis+report production system ownership
• – Docker, Kubernetes and related technologies (on GCE, AWS); Ruby technologies for admin components, system tests, etc; Python technologies for data analysis; Apache technologies, such as Kafka and Lucene (Elastic stack); other NoSQL technologies, Elixir (Erlang VM)

2016–2016

Core Developer at Peer5 (core product team)

• Web (client-side) video P2P delivery plug-in system maintenance
• Trying to stabilise and extend the niche product technology
• – Docker technologies, NodeJS, HTML5 APIs, web video players APIs

2015–2016

Software Architect at Showbox (video processing and data management back-end system)

• video editing and delivery workflow back end ownership, video montage engine development
• – Ruby on Rails, FFmpeg and similar technologies, Redis, multi-process multi-service high-speed processing architecture

2011–2014

Project Lead, Core Developer and Consultant at Astrails (various web/mobile app projects)

• technology expertise, architecture and interface design, wireframing, prototyping, requirements specification, production implementation, engineering support and management of web+mobile app projects
• – Ruby on Rails, Backbone+Marionette, NodeJS, RSpec, and a great deal of other contemporary client- and server- side technologies

2009–2010

Senior Software Engineer at RSA (Verified by Visa / MasterCard SecureCode project, Herzliya)

• production and development maintenance of the technologically complicated SAAS product family
• – Java EE, C++/Boost/Tuxedo, ORACLE SQL, Python, bash, ksh, Tcl/Tk & other scripting

2007–2009

Senior Software Engineer at Nielsen Online (projects on interactive distributed systems for large-volume text-mining analysis, Herzliya)

• full ownership of the company's core Consumer-Generated Media analysis project
• solving stability, maintainance and performance issues on component and system levels
• – Java EE & Apache Jakarta technologies (notably incl. Lucene), C++/Boost, SQL & custom DBMS's, XML processing, standard & custom client-server transports, bash & other scripting

2005–2007

Technological Leader and Founder at a personal information management web service start-up project

• technology development (interface definitions, system architecture, algorithm and database design, etc)
• start-up company related activities
• – front-end web technologies, PHP5, Java EE & Apache Jakarta technologies, JDBC, PostgreSQL, FreeBSD, common internet server software

2002–2004

Senior Software Engineer at Intel (pre-silicon VLSI power estimation tool project, integrated VLSI CAD system, CAD Dept., Haifa)

• VLSI technology domain experience (including system input/output specifications and real-data analysis)
• subsystem architecture development
• internal customer engineering support (VLSI projects)
• cross-project coordination and developemnt
• – C++, VLSI knowledge, internal infrastructure framework, Tcl/Tk, Perl

2000–2002

Software / Integration Engineer at Qualcomm (several cellular communication related software-hardware projects, Haifa)

• CDMA technology domain experience (both parties plus simulation/testing)
• full-circle development of a hardware driver framework and applications
• development, maintenance and refactoring of a distributed testing/simulation infrastructure
• cell-phone system integration (including development of mid-layer embedded communication software)
• – RT/Embedded systems, VxWorks, Tornado, CORBA, Visual C++, ARM, proprietary DSP, hardware-level protocols (cPCI, flash memory, etc), Win32, Perl

1999–2000

Software Developer (part-time) at Extent (former, acquired by Alepo) (Billing & Mgmt. RADIUS ISP web-managed server project, Ramat Gan)

• development of custom management and report software modules
• – cross-platform C++, SQL (various DBMS's), Apache HTTP server, proprietary front-end template framework

1998–1999

Teaching Assistant at Technion (basic CS courses, CSD, CEESD, Haifa)

1997–1998

Software Developer (part-time) at NetManage (former, acquired by Alepo) (several internet client projects, Haifa)

• common internet protocols experience (email, ftp, telnet, etc)
• client software module development (including GUI components)
• infrastructure works
• – Visual C++, MFC, DCOM/ActiveX, range of internet protocols, Win32, other application technologies

1995–1997

Software Developer (part-time) at the the Technion's Asher Space Research Institute (TechSat micro­satellite project, Haifa)

• design and implementation of complex physical algorithm modules
• implementation of telemetry-processing modules (including database design and usage
• implementation and integration hardware driver modules (GPS, etc)
• – C/C++, x86 assembly, Visual Basic, Paradox/BDE, various hardware interface protocols, Win32 (including GUI)

1992–1993

Software Developer (part-time) at the Technion's Center for Promotion of Learning and Teaching (A project of robotic manipulator based educational aid for spatial reasoning development course, Haifa)

• design and implementation of robotic manipulator software (including GUI, command language, robot control and simulation)
• – Pascal, Turbo Vision, x86 assembly, proprietary robot interface protocol, DOS