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Yotam Katznelson


Europe

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(last update, April 24')

Professional IT engineer and technical leader.

Electric Engineer by eductaion. Software Engineer by profession.

Successfully leading development teams in various initiatives and domains.

Excelling in distilling ideas into actions, bootstrapping tech teams and scaling operations.

Strong knowledge base and familiarity with financial engineering, in the intersection between regulated/traditional finance and Blockchain technology.

  Work Experience


COO ( 2024 - present )

@Backed Finance AG, Switzerland / Earth (remote team)

Leading the operational efforts of the company. Coordinating HR, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and Business Development


CTO ( 2022 - present )

@Backed Finance AG, Switzerland / Earth (remote team)

In charge of technical vision and engineering efforts of skilled engineers team. Revolutionizing financial structures and tokenizing real world assets on chain


CTO ( 2019 - 2022 )

@21.co, Switzerland / USA / Earth (remote team)

@21Shares AG, Switzerland / USA / Earth (remote team)

Leading an international team of engineers and driving forward the technology vision of the organization

  • Over the course of three years, scaled up the engineering department from 1 to 50 engineers, across eight different teams
  • Architected, implemented and maintained a financial backoffice system that runs 24/7 (for over three years now). That system is automating and managing all the life-cycle events of the company suite of ETP products. Allowing the AuM to grow from $10M when I joined in 2019, to $3B at the end of 2021.
  • Directing the technological & strategic thinking of the organization in order to stay ahead of the curve in a very competetitive and demanding landscape
  • Overseeing cutting edge innovation and development in financial engineering, traditional finance and Blockchain technology (EVMs and non-EVMs alike)

VP R&D ( 2018 )

@Securitize, Remote team - Germany / Ukraine / Israel / USA

In charge of building white label platform for ICO of Security tokens on the Ethereum blockchain

  • System architecture
  • Acting as the intersection point between the technical, the product and the design
  • Coordination and orchestration of the product development. From the most distant model to the most critical transaction executioner

Founder ( 2018 - Present )

@Beluga R&D Ltd., Germany / Israel / Earth

My personal (occasionally professional) playground


CO-Founder & CTO ( 2017 - 2021 )

@Minerva, Earth

Founder and technical lead of autonomous cryptocurrencies trading platform

  • Fullstack development of the entire platform (Core, Backend, Frontend)
  • Data engineering of the core metrics data points
  • Business development and investors community management

Principal Staff Engineer ( 2017 - 2018 )

@Neon GmbH (rebranded to Trade Republic), Germany

Leading the development of a fintech application in the brokerage domain

  • Design, architecture, and implementation of main backend systems
  • Oversaw and participates in the development of critical internal systems, mid and back office functions
  • System integrations with multiple partners and service providers in the financial domain

Senior software Engineer ( 2017 )

@Cliqz GmbH, Munich, Germany

Cliqz is developing a multi-platform web browser that emphasizes the privacy and protection of the user while maintaining standards and pushing the edges of technology regarding browsing speed and latency

  • Member of the core browser team. Worked on the company's proprietary Firefox based browser and extension
  • Focused mainly on low level client-side developments (low-level front end - C++ & vanilla JS)
  • Implemented solutions to various problems from a wide range of domains (graphics rendering, communication protocols utilization optimization, security related concerns) using advanced modern standards

Freelance Senior software Engineer ( 2016 )

@Mapegy GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Mapegy GmbH is a business consulting agency that provides high tech and innovation consulting, derived from collecting massive data sources.

  • The role was divided equally between full stack front end development and hardcore data engineering
  • Working closely with the PM/sales/colleagues in fast pace, release oriented development cycles
  • Integrating data sources and enriching/improving quality of data and data analysis techniques
  • Supporting and mentoring junior developers

VP Engineering ( 2015 - 2016 )

@HALO Analytics, Israel

HALO Analytics is a cyber security company that develops an integrated HW-SW solution to protect end-point machinery in various industries

  • Defined the product and executed its implementation from pre-planning to the POC and beta
  • Planned and defined proccesses for the product wide scale phase
  • Consulting and directing the company's technological aspects
  • Successfully delivered multiple product's iterations in pressing time tables and demanding environments

Application Engineer ( 2013 - 2015 )

@Ayyeka Technologies Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel

Ayyeka develops low energy remote monitoring solutions for various industries. Ayyeka provides holistic autonomous data collection system that integrates with cloud services and enables comprehensive insights on the collected data

  • Managed the company DevOps section. Acted as the mediator between the customers and the engineers. Facilitated enhancements and resolutions for various subjects
  • Developed essential monitoring systems for the company products
  • Served as the "quick & dirty development guy" for high demand quick solutions for any technological development problem

Freelancer Software Engineer ( 2013 - 2015 )

@Quickest Owl Ltd., Israel

Quickest Owl is a company centered around analyzing and implementing low & high technological solutions for 3rd party companies

  • Developed frontend and backend for a massive active protection system

Web developer ( 2012 )

@Mapegy GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Mapegy GmbH is a business consulting agency that provides high tech and innovation consulting, derived from collection massive data sources

  • Developed the company frontend and backend
  • Created extensive platforms for data visualization
  • Built tools for the company analysts

  Education


Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Electric Engineering, Major in Computer Engineering, Bachelors

2009 - 2014
  • 67504 - Algorithms
  • 67521 - Computational models, Computability and Complexity
  • 67506 - Databases
  • 67555 - Modern Internet Technologies
  • 67609 - Computer Graphics
  • 67829 - Image Processing
  • 67808 - Operating Systems
  • 67200 - Computer Architecture
  • 67577 - Machine Learning
  • Many other courses in various CS topics, Physics, Math and Electrical Engineering

Technical University Berlin

Technology Innovation Management, Exchange Student, M.B.A Program

2012
  • Strategic lnnovation Management
  • Technologv Management

  Skills


Python JavaScript Java C++ Frontend Backend Full stack Security Blockchain Relatonal Databases In-Memory (noSQL) Databases Big Data Machine Learning Cloud Infrastructure Scripting & utilities IoT Development Boards Git Data visualization Agile

  Volunteering


@V15

Took part in the biggest (to date) non partisan related political campaign.

2015

Digital campaign team member

  • Co-created and maintained front app that served millions of users and more then 100K unique users per day
  • Co-created and maintained advanced internal CRM that supported the whole organization
  • Assisted the research team by creating advanced analytical tools

@Media Noche Salsa

Board member and instructor in a free-of-charge dance club / organization

2009 - 2013

VP & Dance Instructor


  Languages


  • Hebrew - Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English - Full professional proficiency

  • German - Limited working proficiency


  References


"Mr. Katznelson  proved to be a valuable team member, handling numerous tasks that require both a high level of creativity and a ‘getting things done’ attitude."

Ariel Stern, CEO, Ayyeka Technologies Ltd.

"Yotam Katznelson showed an excellent experience and knowledge in many fields, both technical and intellectual. He skillfully connected various areas of research and articulated them in accessible and creative ways. He has brought his own approach and gumption into the projects and worked dedicatedly and independently with a high degree of self-motivation."

Dr. Peter Walde, CEO, Mapegy GmbH

"In his work, Yotam Katznelson presented outstanding capabilities. He presented outstanding degree of commitment for the project, foresaw problems long before they presented themselves, brought a fresh mind to the table, and keen desire for elegant and simple problem solving."

Amnon Demri, CEO, Quickest Owl Ltd.