Director of Engineering
2018 - 2018Braze- Led a team responsible for core functionalities of a marketing platform.
- Built a machine-learning team from the grounds-up.
- Led Agile transformation process.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, RedisSenior Director of Innovation
2010 - 2018Vonage- Envisioned, designed, and built a multi-tenant platform for chatbots. The platform was channel-agnostic and allowed for zero-deployment when conversation templates required updates.
- Built Voice skills for Alexa and Google Home. Integrated with 3rd party services and API for enhanced functionality such as calendar integration and communication solutions.
- Built numerous AI-based services from transcription to voice sentiment to image recognition.
- Explored and chose technologies for task-specific projects.
- Spearheaded multi-group projects including sales, marketing and legal.
Technologies: Java, Python, Node.js, A-Frame (VR/AR), Firebase, AWS (S3, EC2, DynamoDB, LB, SES)Director of Technology
2006 - 2010JAJAH- Managed a team responsible for building mobile applications for various mobile platforms. The application was installed and used by 10,000s of users.
- Integrated with 3rd party services.
- Managed and scaled development teams.
- Defined development process and methodology.
Technologies: mobile, C#
Zach Efrati
System Design Developer in Hoboken, NJ, United States
Member since February 17, 2018
Zach has 15+ years of experience as an individual contributor, team leader, and director of engineering, combined with product management experience. He's well versed with numerous platforms and programming languages.
Zach is now available for hire
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
VSCode, Compass, Coffee
The most amazing...
...project that I've built was a multi-tenant chatbot platform
Employment
Experience
- Virtual Conference Manager (Development)https://garage.vonage.com/projects/virtual-conference-manager/
A voice-activated service for setting up, managing and calling to conference calls. The service integrates with online calendars (Google Calendar, Outlook) to find meetings, extract conference call information (title, bridge number, pin, etc.), and make the call
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, Python 3, C, C++, Java, C#, C#.NET, SQLLibraries/APIs
Node.js, EJS, Google+ API, Chai, Sinon.JS, WebRTC, LSTMTools
JavaScript Debugging, JavaScript Testing, Mongoose, GitHub, Mocha, Dialogflow, Node Version Manager, GitParadigms
RESTPlatforms
Firebase, Amazon Alexa, LinuxStorage
MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, AWS S3Other
APIs, RTP, SIP, H.323, Code Architecture, System Design, Bcrypt, HTTP Request Methods, Async/Await, RESTful Routes, AWS Route 53, Deep Neural Networks, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Google Home, Natural Language Processing (NLP), LSTM Networks, Machine Learning, VoIPFrameworks
YARN, A-Frame, Express.js, Koa
Education
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Sciences and Mathematics1997 - 2001Ben Guryon University - Israel
Certifications
- Deep Learning SpecializationJUNE 2018 - PRESENTCoursera
