Gadi Guy

Current

• CTO at BAvailable

Past

• Founder at Tel Aviv Entrepreneur Meetup
• Lead of Emerging Technologies and Customer Solutions at YCD Multimedia
• Professional Services at Log-On

• Head of Development at Dorent Leasing
• CTO at Masterspin
• Senior Software Engineer at Cloverleaf Communication
• Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader at Immersia Ltd. And Interactive Light Inc
• Senior Software Engineer and Ethical Hacker at Sun Microsystems (Javasoft)
• Owner and CEO at Interzone Ltd.
• Senior Software Engineer at Ubique

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Education

• Tel Aviv University
• Bar-Ilan University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Gadi Guy’s Summary

CTO, entrepreneur, development manager, product manager, coder at heart, relentless think-upper and start-upper, with 18 years of experience in the software industry.

Combining strong management skills, business sense and extensive technical know-how.

Contact me at 0502557446.

Gadi Guy’s Specialties:

Launching ventures, creating and managing software development teams, software architecture, technical product management, professional services, information security, algorithms, lecturing and mentoring

Gadi Guy’s Experience

• CTO

  BAvailable

  (Computer Networking industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  BAvailable is a newly launched startup company. Our ground-breaking technology allows websites to seamlessly embed voice, chat and video calls. BAvailable is the first and only company to offer a comprehensive communication platform that allows web-sites to benefit from one-on-one, contextual communication between site users, operators and advertisers.
  
  Our system allows each connected party to use their communication means of choice: mobile, Skype, IM, or our own In-Place Call™ client-less widget.
  
  http://www.bavailable.com
  http://www.pc.co.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=20845&CategoryID=72

• Founder

  Tel Aviv Entrepreneur Meetup

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — June 2009 (2 years 6 months)

  Meet a new network of local entrepreneurs to share tips and problem solving techniques, get advice on profitability and career and discuss mentoring and business models. Swap business cards and watch your personal business directory grow!

• Lead of Emerging Technologies and Customer Solutions

  YCD Multimedia

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  September 2006 — 2008 (2 years )

  My responsibilities included:
  
  * Research and development in emerging technologies
  * Defining and designing the company's next generation line of products
  * Managing professional services and customer-tailored solutions based on the company's existing products

• Professional Services

  Log-On

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

  Professional services for OpTier:
  
  * Traveling to the company's customers in the UK
  * Defining and designing customer integrations
  * Developing proof of concept demonstrations

• Head of Development

  Dorent Leasing

  (Financial Services industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

  As head of development:
  
  * Managing software development efforts
  * Designing and developing a unique e-commerce platform for car leasing
  * Developing a unique mathematical subsystem for economic modeling of financing deals
  
  Technologies used:
  J2EE, Oracle and MySql, AJAX

• CTO

  Masterspin

  (Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years )

  Managing all technical aspects of the company, including:
  
  * Developing an online gaming system with streaming video, high quality graphic client, secure communication protocol, and high performance server
  * Designing and developing a complex, web-based back office system
  * Designing and developing an accounting and billing system
  
  Technologies used include: J2EE with WebLogic, Oracle DB Server, Flash, Helix, and C++

• Senior Software Engineer

  Cloverleaf Communication

  (Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year )

  As member of the application level security team:
  
  * Developing a rule-based access-control subsystem (C on UNIX)
  * Extensive backward engineering of undocumented Windows authentication schemes and implementing them on UNIX
  * Implementing standard-based authentication protocols such a Kerberos, LDAP, Radius, etc. (C on UNIX)

• Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader

  Immersia Ltd. And Interactive Light Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  As leader of the server team I designed and managed the development of a client-server system for media distribution, control and monitoring for the company's arcade game systems.
  
  The company declared bankruptcy after a failed public offering attempt.

• Senior Software Engineer and Ethical Hacker

  Sun Microsystems (Javasoft)

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  As member of the JDK security team:
  
  * Designed and developed encryption and authentication algorithms and protocols (C++ and Java)
  * Invented and patented a secure single sign-on protocol:
  http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=ISMPAAAAEBAJ&dq=gadi+guy
  * Performed research and development on true random number generation for the JDK encryption package (JCE)
  * Performed code auditing and penetration testing on the JVM's byte code verifier and garbage collection sub-systems
  * Traveled to conferences in the US to give lectures and presentations on the Java programming language

• Owner and CEO

  Interzone Ltd.

  (Internet industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years )

  Founded and managed a web studio.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Ubique

  (Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

  Among my responsibilities:
  
  * Application level information security - designing and implementing secure communication protocols, encryption and authentication algorithms for the company's instant messaging and virtual community servers
  * Designing and implementing a high performance server platform for virtual communities (C++, on UNIX and Windows)
  * Prototyping the company's next generation of products, including GUI design and development on Windows (MFC)

Gadi Guy’s Education

• Tel Aviv University

  MA , History and Philosophy of Science , 2005 — 2007

• Bar-Ilan University

  B.Sc. , Physics and Computer Science , 1995 — 1999

Additional Information

Gadi Guy’s Interests:

History and philosophy of science Science fiction literature and cinema

Gadi Guy’s Contact Settings

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