Yuval Fuchs

Experience

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  IAI - Israel Aerospace Industries

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1995

  Software Engineer

  • Developed system (in C) for analysis of geographical coordinates as potential sites for setting up antennas for microwave communication networks. (The system and process I created were a critical milestone in setting up the infrastructure for the Cellcom mobile network and later also for Orange/ Partner mobile network)• Worked in collaboration with the department manager, electronics engineers and team leaders to support achievement of the department goals. • Trained and assimilated the new work processes in the technicians’ team. Show less

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  RTS

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1999

  Systems analyst

  • Analysed and defined large logistic system for operations of a complex business process for large international service companies.• Supported customer in many phases including integration and assimilation stages on site.• Defined a solution to various problems during the life of the project. • Trained on-site engineers and operators on best practices in using the system.

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  NDS

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2006

  Integration, tests & system engineer

  • Integration and e-2-e tests for large Pay-TV systems • Worked with architects, developers and project manager to close holes and gaps that I found in the system.• Planned and implemented the installation of software at customer sites • Planned and executed final acceptance test procedure at the customer with the customer’s engineers to approve that the delivered system works properly and passed the acceptance criteria

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  NDS

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2007

  Product manager

  • Analyzed and defined requirements for monitoring smooth operation of broadcast systems installed at customer sites. • Analyzed the needs of various projects from the monitoring system and accordingly created road map for the monitoring system due to required priorities.• Wrote specifications for developers.• Utilized the experience and insights gained as system & integration engineer in various projects.

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  NDS

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  Performance test engineer

  • Designed and performed compound performance tests to identify or estimate potential failure areas.• Create toolbox (Perl scripts) for performing the tests and analyzing the results. • Implemented use of industry-standard tools like soap-ui, wireshark, tcpdump, perfmon for Linux in appropriate circumstances.

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  Cisco

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2015

  Senior engineer / Technical leader of performance tests team

  • Department expert for system's load and performance• Estimated required hardware resources for various projects according to the expected load and performance as required by the project. • Coordinated and supported cross department development process between R&D and delivery departments - in products that are expected to withstand very high loads at customer sites.• Evaluated non-functional risks of system crashes, load, untimely responses, and scalability issues.• Designed and performed load tests according to risk assessment in the various projects.• Technical lead of performance test team. Definition and control of team work methodologies.• Assured that team member reports contained reliable and relevant information. Show less

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  Cisco

  Jan 2016 - Jun 2017

  Senior Infrastructure & Automated test software engineer

  • Developed infrastructure for new automated test model following CI/CD methodology for traditional pay-TV and television to mobile devices in the cloud. • Designed and implemented parts of the system’s core (Python / Ubuntu). • Planned and coded plugins to communicate with the core: for broadcasting IR signals using iTach hardware, communicating with components of the tested system over HTTP, to control tested system on Android using ADB. Significantly enhanced plugin for video tests using hardware by Magewell and other software components. • Led and assisted peers writing the required tests using Behave and Python. • Performed code reviews for peers (Gerrit / GIT) Show less

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  ScaleMP

  Nov 2017 - now

  Senior system & automation engineer

  • Designed, developed and deployed scripts and applications to automate testing and measure performance for various platforms including: Cloud, HPC, visualization, MongoDB, Hadoop and Redis• Worked with customers to optimize performance for complex environments. • Worked with customers to reproduce and solve complex issues that arose in the product on customers’ environment.• Worked with the R&D team on product optimizations• Work environment & technologies: Linux, HPC & visualization, MongoDB, Hadoop, Redis, AWS and other similar technologies. Show less