Summary
Shay Katz is a seasoned software engineering leader with 16+ years of experience guiding cross-functional R&D teams from concept to production across cloud, IoT, and biometric domains. He currently serves as R&D Group Manager at CyberArk and previously led a cross-functional group of ~40 employees across five teams at Cellebrite, driving end-to-end design-to-deployment and a cloud-first microservices initiative. A builder of organizations from scratch, he established R&D for a biometric IoT retail solution and has hands-on expertise across databases, cloud services, big data, streaming, and messaging systems like RabbitMQ and Redis. Notable achievements include stabilizing the Teradata Applications platform and boosting messaging throughput from 55 msg/sec to 800 msg/sec, as well as leading CI/CD and automation initiatives across global teams. Based in Israel, Shay holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering from Afeka College and combines strategic leadership with hands-on engineering to deliver scalable, customer-focused software at pace.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer