Ori Zaltzman

Airline Pilot

2023

CTO & Founder

2010 - 2019

Trip is the world's most popular source of trusted travel advice from people like you. Launched in November 2010 and named one of TIME magazine's 50 Best Websites, Trip was the first travel company to refocus online travel planning on friends, not strangers. The company was founded by former chief architect for Yahoo! BOSS Ori Zaltzman, and ex MySpace exec Travis Katz. Gogobot raised $39 millions to date, backed by Battery Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Homeaway, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Michael Arrington, MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe, Square CEO Keith Rabois and angel investor Oren Ze’ev. Called by Michael Arrington "one of my favorite new startups," It connects you with friends and travelers like you to make planning and sharing your travels fun. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Gogobot was acquired by CTrip/Skyscanner

Co-Founder

2009 - 2010

Contextual Ad Network for Premium Video

Chief Architect, Y! BOSS

2009 - 2009

Designed V2 API for Yahoo! BOSS http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

Engineering Manager

2006 - 2009

Yahoo! Answers (150M users) - Designed and deployed a reputation based community moderation platform that moderates 1.2M new posts per day. Yahoo! Mobile - designed and patented a new social proximity platform - 'Social Reality'. Y!OS - Advanced Products Team - abuse mitigation roadmap and social ad targeting.

CTO and Co-Founder

2001 - 2006

Headed the development of over 15 innovative products from conception, design and development to testing, deployment and support; including: Instant Messaging, Micro-Payment Provisioning system, T-Commerce, multi-player gaming platform, content management, communication, monitoring & encryption.

Digital Television Consultant

1999 - 2001

Internet projects and development of interactive formats consultant for the Israeli Cable Programming company (ICP). Reported directly to the CEO. Spearheaded the design, implementation and roll-out of the first interactive digital television service in Israel. Developed & produced 4 original television formats for national broadcast (developed on Silicon Graphics & PC platforms).

Software Developer

1994 - 1996

Developed commercial games for the advertising and educational markets. Designed and developed a generic 3D game engine.