Founder, Builder & Engineer
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+13 years building cloud platforms and scalable infrastructure at companies like BlackRock, Anaplan, and Entelo.
Entrepreneur and seed investor. Currently based in Asuncion, Paraguay after years of traveling across the globe.

Employment History
A timeline of my professional journey and key achievements.
San Francisco Bay Area
Apr 2023 - Present
Strategic Advisor & Seed Investor
- •Seed investor providing critical funding and strategic expertise during early growth stages
- •Guiding transition from legal services to AI-driven document analysis platform
- •Driving Web3 integration including decentralized storage and tokenomics
- •Advising on business strategy, contract negotiations, and fundraising initiatives
San Francisco Bay Area
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
Senior Cloud Engineer
- •Designed Chaos Engineering scenarios with LitmusChaos, increasing test coverage by 30%
- •Enhanced observability with new monitoring cases and optimized dashboards
- •Revamped CI pipelines with simplified workflows and new templates
- •Migrated legacy Terraform code with remote backends, eliminating race conditions
San Francisco Bay Area
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
- •Led team delivering high-availability AWS environments, reducing provisioning time by 25%
- •Coordinated production releases across multiple teams and enterprise clients
- •Optimized GCP infrastructure (GKE), increasing platform user retention by 23%
- •Built automated infrastructure testing with Terratest/Go, achieving 70% coverage
- •Contributed features to community Terraform providers
Review
"I managed Israel while we both worked on the Platform Infrastructure team at Anaplan. While working with him, I quickly learned he was a capable addition to our team. He was professional in communicating with others, competent in getting his work done well and on time, and a team player who worked well with everyone. [...] His hard work and technical skills helped us complete the Lion project on time. [...] He has my full confidence."
Richard Sposato
Development Team Lead
San Francisco Bay Area
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
- •Built high-availability monitoring for all Kubernetes clusters (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki)
- •Created custom Prometheus exporter in Go, reducing AWS bills by 45%
- •Containerized applications and improved delivery pipelines, cutting release times by 35%
- •Implemented service mesh with Kubernetes, Istio, and Spinnaker
Review
"It's difficult to write a recommendation that does service to Israel's level of expertise or the importance that his work has made to the engineering team at Entelo. [...] The engineering team relies heavily on him (he knows our infrastructure inside and out, he built our deployment pipeline, he set up our metrics and logging systems); but at the same time he has made sure that the engineering team does not need to rely on him [...] He prevents engineers from having to spend their time dealing with infrastructure [...] I could not do my job effectively without Israel's help."
Jason Rosendale
Software Engineer
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
Infrastructure Engineer
- •Sole infrastructure engineer architecting customer-facing systems on AWS and Azure
- •Built highly available infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Docker
- •Implemented service mesh using Rancher/Cattle and Linkerd
- •Established CI/CD (Jenkins), monitoring (Datadog), and logging (ELK Stack) platforms
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Platform Engineer
- •Built and maintained product through monolith-to-microservices evolution
- •Worked across full stack: PHP, Laravel, Go, Node.js, Nginx
- •Managed data layer with Scylla, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL
Bristol, UK
Sep 2014 - Aug 2015
Software Engineer
- •Main engineer for SaaS contact management platform
- •Fixed customer issues while refactoring legacy Zend Framework codebase
- •Architected new distributed system using Laravel and Symfony
Review
"I worked with Israel for a couple of years on our SaaS product ContactZilla. Working with Israel was a delight. He's an enthusiastic, smart and considered character with a real ability to learn knew technologies. He's never phased by a challenge and approaches everything with a professional manner and importantly with good humour. I'd definitely not hesitate to work with Israel again."
Tom Holder
Chief Executive Officer
Bristol, UK
Jun 2013 - Jun 2014
Software Developer
- •Integrated carrier APIs: DHL, myHermes, Parcelforce
- •Built payment platform integrations: PayPal, Authorize.net
- •Developed robust APIs enabling automated shipping workflows
Review
"Israel is a hardworking knowledgeable guy. He always seems up-to-date with the new trends and technologies and is versatile in a number of languages and environments."
Mark Mikkelson
Co-Founder
Recent Writing
Thoughts on engineering, leadership, and technology.