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Menashe Eliezer

@menasheeliezer

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Backend developer with 23 years’ experience, also as a tech lead. Java and Kotlin microservices.

Italy

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior backend roles in cloud-native teams focusing on Java/Kotlin microservices, strong engineering practices, secure systems, mentorship and opportunities to architect scalable payments or SaaS platforms; open to remote EU/UK with occasional onsite.

Backend developer with 23 years’ experience, also as a tech lead, working mainly with foreign

companies (only English). Specialized in Java and Kotlin microservices development, with some

Javascript experience as frontend. Has a well-founded testing culture (BDD) and worked in

international Agile teams. Worked with Spring, Spring Boot, Quarkus and several relational

databases.

Designed databases and RESTful APIs; worked with AWS, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Kafka, ArgoCD,

JMS queues, Cucumber, JUnit, Mockito, and SOAP APIs.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Backend Engineer

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Future Horizons

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Designed high-throughput backend services for a multinational insurance client, improving performance and reliability of ingestion pipelines and integrating Oracle PL/SQL components using Java 21 and Quarkus.

Java 21+Quarkus REST APIs Oracle PL SQL Kubernetes Docker Gitlab CI Microservices Performance Tuning

Senior Kotlin/Java Backend Developer

Kairós Digital

Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 (1 year)

Developed multi-tenant onboarding SaaS backend services in Kotlin and Java 17, integrating Kafka, DynamoDB and MongoDB, and improved deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD for multi-region cloud deployments.

Kotlin Kafka DynamoDB MongoDB AWS GitHub Actions ArgoCD REST APIs

Senior Java Backend Engineer

Hirexa Solutions

Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year)

Built and led a backend team delivering Java 17 microservices for high-volume international payments, defined API contracts and introduced BDD with Cucumber to raise test maturity.

Microservices Payments API Design BDD Cucumber Team Leadership

Backend Developer

OGS

Jan 2013 - Dec 2022 (9 years 11 months)

Developed Java REST services and ETL workflows for EU-wide oceanographic data platforms, leading backend integration across multi-institution research teams and designing APIs for data management.

Java REST APIs ETL Data Integration PostgreSQL Oracle Agile API Design

Security Research Engineer

Finjan / Commtouch / Cyren

Jan 1997 - Dec 2008 (11 years 11 months)

Conducted vulnerability research and developed malware detection, secure content inspection, and anti-spam/phishing systems, leading anti-spam research efforts and performing reverse engineering and C/C++/Java security analysis.

Malware Analysis Vulnerability Research Reverse Engineering C C++Java Secure Content Inspection Threat Detection

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Michlala Leminhal

Coursework (partial), Software Engineering

1996 - 1997

Completed partial studies in Software Engineering focusing on fundamental software development topics.

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science, Food Engineering & Biotechnology

1989 - 1993

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Food Engineering & Biotechnology, covering engineering and biotechnological principles with practical laboratory work.