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Barak Schoster Goihman

Partner, Battery Ventures

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $60,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

Skills

System Architecture
Software Development
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Design
Big Data
Machine Learning
Object Oriented Design
Scrum
SEO
Product Management
Business Intelligence
OOP
Entrepreneurship
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Data Architecture
Data Science
Cybersecurity
Java
Spring Framework
SQL

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2024

  • Venture Partner

    2022 - 2024

    AI, Cloud, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Data, Devtools. The views expressed here are my own and do not represent the views of my employer Battery Ventures; no investment advice intended.

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    Generate the backend code and the rest will come.

2021 - 2022

  • Senior Director, Chief Architect

    2021 - 2022

    Leading developer advocacy, open source initiatives and architecture of Prisma Cloud Code & DevSecOps business

2019 - 2022

  • CTO & Co-founder

    2019 - 2022

    Bridgecrew develops and delivers security as code, so anyone, anywhere can deploy the defenses needed to protect their cloud infrastructure. It’s time for a completely new approach. It’s time security was treated like the software engineering challenge it actually is. Bridgecrew was acquired by Palo Alto Networks

2018 - 2019

  • Senior Software Architect

    2018 - 2019

    Technical lead, responsible for Netwitness UEBA (Fortscale acquisition) architecture. Co-leading the analytics vision of the product. Building machine learning layer on top of EDR & NTA.

  • Software Architect

    2018 - 2018

    Co-led the architecture and design of Fortscale 2nd generation product, which was deployed at several fortune 1000 companies via OEM Agreements. Fortscale was acquired by RSA - the security division of DellEMC.

  • Data Engineer

    2016 - 2018

    Member of the anomaly detection engine development team, focusing on the next generation analytics platform of Fortscale, while introducing innovative Machine Learning algorithms and techniques. Day to day work in scrum methodology, executing tasks with multi-disciplinary team consisting of developers, data scientists and QA. Focused on expanding the architecture to use the most relevant big data open source technologies.

  • Big Data Team Leader

    2012 - 2015

    Engineering leader with a focus on data science projects using big data platforms. Leading a group of 20 software engineers toward solving critical enterprise problems using open-source driven technology solutions including examination of advanced architectures. Rank: Captain.

  • SAP BI Consultant

    2010 - 2012

    Experience in software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, project implementation, system tests, user support, and training. Technical experience in SAP BI/BW & IP: building visual analytics dashboards, designing ETL processes, and modeling OLAP information cubes on SAP BEx & BO platform

2009 - 2011

  • SEO Consultant

    2009 - 2011

    Knowledge of management of marketing campaigns. Responsible for building, developing and implementing SEO and social media strategies from the ground up. Executing market research, Ads copywriting and high level design of optimized web application.