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/**
 * @file about.ts
 * @author Tomer Peled
 * @description Hands-on CTO building production-grade distributed systems
 */

interface TechLeader {
  name: string;
  title: string;
  experience: number;
  philosophy: string;
}

const tomer: TechLeader = {
  name: "Tomer Peled",
  title: "CTO / VP Engineering",
  experience: 17, // years of building production systems
  philosophy: "Hands-on leadership with deep technical ownership"
};

// What drives me
const passion = [
  "Building distributed systems that scale",
  "Creating engineering cultures of ownership",
  "Turning complex problems into elegant solutions",
  "Driving AI-assisted workflows and LLM-based capabilities",
  "Staying hands-on while leading teams"
];

// My journey
const journey: string = `
  From software engineer at Deutsche Telekom and HP,
  to leading teams at Plus500,
  to co-founding three startups as CTO —
  across fintech, trading, gaming, and social products.

  I believe the best technical leaders never stop coding.
  I architect systems, write code, and build teams —
  all while driving AI-assisted innovation.
`;

// Education
const background = {
  education: "B.Sc. Software Engineering, Ben-Gurion University"
};

export default tomer;
{
  "career": [
    {
      "company": "50K Trade",
      "role": "Co-Founder & CTO",
      "period": "2022 – Present",
      "type": "startup",
      "description": "High-leverage trading platform",
      "achievements": [
        "Led architecture and technical strategy for cloud-native trading platform",
        "Designed and implemented distributed backend with Orleans and event-driven patterns",
        "Defined engineering standards covering workflows, CI/CD, deployments, and testing",
        "Evaluated and guided adoption of LLM-based solutions",
        "Built and led engineering team while remaining fully hands-on"
      ],
      "stack": ["C#", ".NET Core", "Orleans", "CockroachDB", "PostgreSQL", "GCP", "Vue.js", "Flutter", "Nats", "OpenAI API"]
    },
    {
      "company": "12 Tech",
      "role": "Co-Founder & CTO",
      "period": "2020 – 2022",
      "type": "startup",
      "achievements": [
        "Designed backend architecture from scratch",
        "Defined development workflows & production standards"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "NoGame",
      "role": "Co-Founder & CTO",
      "period": "2017 – 2020",
      "type": "startup",
      "description": "Real-time multiplayer gaming platform",
      "achievements": [
        "Built real-time multiplayer backend and infrastructure from scratch",
        "Led architecture across server and client systems"
      ],
      "stack": ["C#", "TypeScript", "JavaScript", "Orleans", "Angular", "Unity", "GCP Spanner"]
    },
    {
      "company": "Plus500",
      "role": "Senior Software Engineer & Team Leader",
      "period": "2012 – 2017",
      "achievements": [
        "Led teams across data, marketing, mobile, and backend",
        "Designed and delivered Call Center platform from scratch"
      ],
      "stack": ["C#", "Java", "Objective-C", "ASP.NET MVC", "WCF", "SQL Server", "Entity Framework"]
    },
    {
      "company": "HP Software",
      "role": "Software Engineer",
      "period": "2009 – 2012"
    },
    {
      "company": "Deutsche Telekom",
      "role": "Software Engineer",
      "period": "2008 – 2009"
    }
  ],
  "totalStartups": 3,
  "yearsAsFounder": 7
}
/**
 * Technical Skills & Expertise
 * Built and battle-tested in production
 */

type SkillLevel = "expert" | "advanced" | "proficient";

interface TechStack {
  category: string;
  technologies: string[];
  level: SkillLevel;
}

const emergingTech: TechStack = {
  category: "Emerging Technologies",
  technologies: [
    "LLM API Integration",
    "AI-Assisted Development Workflows",
    "OpenAI API"
  ],
  level: "advanced"
};

const architecture: TechStack = {
  category: "System Design",
  technologies: [
    "Distributed Systems",
    "Event-Driven Architecture",
    "Cloud-Native Design",
    "High Availability Systems",
    "Microservices"
  ],
  level: "expert"
};

const backend: TechStack = {
  category: "Backend Development",
  technologies: [
    "C# / .NET Core",
    "Microsoft Orleans",
    "ASP.NET Core / Web API",
    "Entity Framework Core"
  ],
  level: "expert"
};

const data: TechStack = {
  category: "Data & Storage",
  technologies: [
    "CockroachDB",
    "PostgreSQL",
    "Google Spanner",
    "BigQuery",
    "Metabase"
  ],
  level: "expert"
};

const cloud: TechStack = {
  category: "Cloud & DevOps",
  technologies: [
    "Google Cloud Platform",
    "Kubernetes",
    "Pub/Sub",
    "NATS",
    "CI/CD Pipelines"
  ],
  level: "expert"
};

const frontend: TechStack = {
  category: "Frontend & Mobile",
  technologies: [
    "Vue.js",
    "Angular",
    "Flutter",
    "TypeScript"
  ],
  level: "advanced"
};

export { emergingTech, architecture, backend, data, cloud, frontend };
# Engineering Leadership & Practices

## Philosophy

> "The best technical leaders never stop coding."

I believe in **hands-on leadership** — staying close to the code
while building teams and driving technical strategy.

## What I Build

### Engineering Culture
- Ownership & accountability mindset
- Collaborative, proactive teams
- Technical excellence as a standard

### Development Practices
- GitHub workflows & branching strategies
- Code review standards
- Testing & quality gates

### AI-Assisted Engineering
- Led adoption of AI-assisted development workflows
- Increased engineering velocity & architectural exploration

### Production Readiness
- CI/CD pipelines with rollback strategies
- Deployment flows & release processes
- Availability & on-call expectations

## Leadership Style

```typescript
const leadershipApproach = {
  technical: "Hands-on, writing code daily",
  strategic: "Architecture & technical direction",
  people: "Hiring, mentoring, growing teams",
  delivery: "High-availability production systems"
};
```

## Track Record

- **3 startups** co-founded as CTO
- **17+ years** building production systems
- **Fintech, Gaming, Trading, Social** domains
- **Multiple teams** built from scratch
# Contact & Connect
# Let's build something together

contact:
  email: tomerpeled@gmail.com
  location: Mishmarot, Israel

social:
  linkedin: linkedin.com/in/tomer-peled-dev

availability:
  status: Open to interesting opportunities
  interests:
    - Technical co-founder roles
    - CTO / VP Engineering positions
    - Advisory & consulting
    - Complex distributed systems challenges

preferred_stack:
  backend: .NET, C#, Orleans
  cloud: GCP, Kubernetes
  data: Distributed SQL (CockroachDB, Spanner)

# ---
# "Let's discuss how I can help you build
#  production-grade systems that scale."