Our Instructors
We only pick the best-of-the-best to teach at BigData Boutique. Come learn the right stuff, from the right people. All courses are taught by industry experts in the field.
Demi Ben-Ari
Demi is the Co-Founder and VP R&D @ Panorays, with over 10 years of experience in building various systems both from the field of near real time applications and Big Data distributed systems. Holds a BS'c in computer science and Management from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo. Co-Founder of the "Big Things" BigData Community and a software development groupie, Interested in tackling cutting edge technologies.
Itamar Syn-Hershko
Itamar is a BigData and search technologies expert, and BigData Boutique's CTO. Equipped with many years of experience building and optimizing data platforms for organizations in various scales, Itamar's current job is to keep BigData Boutique's team engaged with the latest technologies and working with customers to optimize their journey in the world of BigData.
Paul Stack
Paul Stack is an infrastructure coder and has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration, continuous delivery and good operational procedures and why they should be part of what developers and system administrators do on a day to day basis. He believes that reliably delivering software is more important as its development. Paul’s passions are the DevOps and Continuous Delivery movements and how they help the entire business and its customers.
Stefan Armbruster
Stefan has spent ~15 years as a freelancing consultant, mainly focused on web applications (esp. Grails) with the last 3 years working with Neo4j. Aside from coding in the java ecosystem. He is a passionate Linux veteran since the kernel 1.0.x days and when not coding, he cycles and is a volunteer firefighter at the local fire department, acting as team lead and instructor. He's all geek and loves technology, good food, and red wines.
Tzach Zohar
Tzach is a system architect specializing in Scaling systems and development teams, Java and Scala developer, Functional Programming enthusiast, Big Data practitioner and StackOverflow reputation junkey. Tzach spent the last 10+ years at Kenshoo, helping to scale the company's systems from the wild startup days into its current enterprize-grade set of solutions, serving as a developer, team lead, tech lead and Chief Architect.
Vadim Solovey
Vadim is a cloud and architecture expert. He is the founding partner of DoIT International, and an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and a Google Developer expert. Over the last years, Vadim has helped countless companies to realize their cloud dreams into fully developed deployments based on cloud solutions. Vadim oversees technology and makes the hard stuff simple.