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Kobi Shem Tov

Director of Engineering
Ra'anana

Summary

Seasoned engineering leader with extensive experience in Agile methodologies, cloud computing, and large-scale system design. Proven track record in team leadership, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction. Adept at managing and mentoring diverse teams, streamlining processes, and enhancing product quality to achieve significant performance improvements and issue resolution. Strong background in SaaS and on-premise platforms, specializing in .Net C#, Java, and Python.

Work History

Director of Engineering

Axonius
03.2023 - Current
  • Leadership & Team Management
    - Led and managed a group of four teams, consisting of three teams in Israel and one in the United States.
    - Directly managed four team leaders and two technical leads, ensuring cohesive collaboration and efficient project execution.
  • Customer Communication & Issue Resolution
    - Maintained direct communication with customers to address a significant number of tickets, feature requests, and bugs.
    - Successfully handled and reduced the number of issues by implementing more generic and efficient solutions, enhancing overall customer satisfaction.
  • Team Building & Development
    - Promoted two engineers to team leaders and mentored a technical lead, contributing to their professional growth.
    - Developed and nurtured individual team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
  • Operational Excellence
    - Managed a highly complex operation within a fast-paced environment, ensuring smooth and efficient workflow.
    - Implemented strategic initiatives to streamline processes and improve team productivity.
  • Achievements
    - Achieved significant reductions in customer issues through innovative problem-solving and proactive measures.
    - Successfully expanded the team's capabilities and expertise, improving project outcomes and customer satisfaction.

R&D Group Leader for SaaS Platform

NICE
01.2021 - 02.2022
  • Lead a group with 3 R&D teams responsible for NICE's SaaS recording platform
  • Increased overall performance of the recording system, allowing growth from 0.4M interactions to 1.2M+ interactions / day in ~6 months.
  • Established monitoring capabilities that decreased the number of outages and downtimes by more than 40%, using AWS cloud-watch, DDOG and more.
  • Increased R&D teams velocity by 2%-3% each sprint by retrospecting the work and finding solutions to impediments, bottlenecks and other disrupts
  • Reducing R&D escalations by 30% by improving the product's quality, by adding more automation and improve CI\CD processes
  • Build strong relationships with relevant stakeholders such as Product management, other R&D groups and the Customer support organization
  • Recruiting and retaining many R&D engineers in a tough and competing work environment

R&D Group Leader for On-premise Platform

NICE
07.2016 - 01.2021
  • Leading an R&D group of 20+ engineers including SW TL's, Scrum Masters, SW engineers, Manual & Automatic QA engineers
  • Responsible for building enterprise grade recording platform, from white-board design phase, through development, implementation and supporting the product at the customer's premise
  • Vast recruitment experience
  • Promoting R&D engineers to Seniors\Experts, SMs\TLs and architects
  • Reducing ~50% of customer escalations by improving the products quality and by educating the support teams
  • Increasing R&D deliveries (average of 2%-3% each sprint) by creating right processes that increases velocity & quality

R&D SW Team Leader

NICE
08.2015 - 06.2016
  • Leading R&D Support team of 5 support engineers
  • Improved products quality
  • Reduced Customer escalations
  • Feedbacking R&D for systematic issues

Scrum Master & Senior SW Engineer

NICE
10.2013 - 08.2015
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
  • Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
  • Built self-managed, highly effective Scrum teams

Software Engineer

NICE
07.2011 - 10.2013
  • Developed and maintained new and existing features of NICE's core recording products
  • Vast experience in Server-side development
  • Focusing on .Net C# technology

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo
Tel Aviv, IL
10.2009 - 20120

Skills

Agile Scrum\Kanban

Timeline

Director of Engineering

Axonius
03.2023 - Current

R&D Group Leader for SaaS Platform

NICE
01.2021 - 02.2022

R&D Group Leader for On-premise Platform

NICE
07.2016 - 01.2021

R&D SW Team Leader

NICE
08.2015 - 06.2016

Scrum Master & Senior SW Engineer

NICE
10.2013 - 08.2015

Software Engineer

NICE
07.2011 - 10.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo
10.2009 - 20120

Patents

Concurrent recordings of telephonic interactions

United States Patent 14/714,374 Issued May 18, 2015

The patent deals with choosing the right recorder in a dual voice recording system by using a single recording resolution mechanism that handles each call separately and chooses the right call without the need for a failover

mechanism.

Patents

Concurrent recordings of telephonic interactions

United States Patent 14/714,374 Issued May 18, 2015

The patent deals with choosing the right recorder in a dual voice recording system by using a single recording resolution mechanism that handles each call separately and chooses the right call without the need for a failover

mechanism.

Kobi Shem TovDirector of Engineering