Ariel Lev-Engineering Manager · AI Platform Architect · Cloud-Native Infrastructure

• Held direct line management responsibility for a team of 4 Platform Engineers — owning hiring, performance reviews, and career development — while establishing a shared engineering standards framework and coaching culture that accelerated delivery across client engagements.
• Led a team of engineers to architect a cloud-native voice AI system for a major inspection client, enabling 2,500 field inspectors to document work fully hands-free via real-time transcription and AI agents — eliminating manual data entry across 440,000 inspections per month and reducing per-user cost from $9 to $1. Stack: AWS (DynamoDB, S3, Transcribe, CloudFront, API Gateway, Bedrock), ElevenLabs, Claude.
• Led a team of engineers to automate multi-region Kubernetes cluster management for a global SaaS leader, reducing provisioning time from 3 weeks to under a day and eliminating 90% of configuration errors. Stack: EKS, Terragrunt, Python, Bash, ArgoCD.
• Accelerator - Cloud-Agnostic AI Platform: Architected and delivered a cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes-native platform as an accelerator, enabling multi-tenant, enterprise-scale management of self-hosted LLMs with concurrent deployment of multiple base models and dynamic LoRA adapter serving. Designed production infrastructure using open-source tooling (ArgoCD, Karpenter, vLLM, SGLang) with automated model lifecycle management, API security (Keycloak + LiteLLM), and cost-optimized GPU provisioning.

Early-stage B2B SaaS startup (-20 engineers) in the Intelligent Transportation Systems domain.

• Led a team of 4 engineers, establishing an ownership-driven culture that empowered engineers to make independent technical decisions and own production deployments end-to-end.
• Architecture, development, and design of a highly available mission-critical cloud platform, that ingests, organizes, and processes 24/7 CCTV data across 100s of concurrent camera streams. Stack: Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS, Azure, Microservices, Python, React, Airflow, Terraform, Docker, Snyk, Istio, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Opsgenie, Github.
• Led the end-to-end migration from AWS/ECS to a multi-region Kubernetes mesh. Successfully operated 3 production clusters and dozens of microservices.
• Engineered a high-performance CI/CD system using self-hosted runners, scaling to 100+ parallel builds — enabling new hires to ship to production on day one.

Developed connected car services for a premium German automotive manufacturer, focusing on swarm data analytics and smart mobility functions.

• Architected and developed distributed, event-driven applications for large-scale vehicle data processing. Stack: Java, Node.js, Vert.X, Spark, GraphQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
• Built and managed on-premise infrastructure including automated CI/CD pipelines and distributed data platforms, supporting high-throughput vehicle data workloads.

• Built scalable RESTful services and full-stack web components for connected car infotainment products at a premium German automotive manufacturer. Stack: JEE, Spring, ReactJS.
• Established CI/CD pipelines and led Android mobile development, enabling continuous delivery within an Agile team. Stack: Jenkins, Nexus, JUnit, Selenium.

Career break for travel following university. Relocated to Berlin and completed an intensive German language programme from A1 to C1.

Attained the rank of Lieutenant and commanded a combat parachute troop of 25 soldiers.