Oded Naftali

Oded Naftali

Head of Development at Innohives. Twenty years on the trail. Read it as plain text

The route as plain text

Everything on the map, in reading order, for people in a hurry and for the software that reads CVs before people do.

2026 – now

Innohives

Head of Development, and the person who built the product

  • Created the platform from its first commit and lead the team that develops it: an AI system that reads public discourse on X, Instagram, Telegram, Bluesky and Facebook and turns it into decisions for campaign, policy and communications teams.
  • Designed the architecture: serverless AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Step Functions), PostgreSQL on RDS, Athena over Parquet, React and TypeScript on the front.
  • Built the daily pipeline that scrapes, translates and classifies posts with LLMs at batch scale, and the agents on top of it that answer analysts' questions by writing their own SQL.
  • Designed the analytics customers pay for: source clustering, audience segments, reports, and dashboards for both analysts and customers.
2025

Watercooler

Senior Software Architect

  • Led product design and development alongside the CTO.
  • Ended when the founders were recruited by a big startup.
  • What I took with me: I can build anything, I fear nothing, and I am up for any challenge.
2016 – 2025

Bio-Rad, Israel

Senior Software Developer

  • Full stack: Python and TypeScript backends, React and Node.js frontends.
  • Implemented and maintained end-to-end scalable web applications on AWS.
  • Designed a microservices architecture, and role-based access control across it.
  • Implemented and optimized the database infrastructure on RDS MySQL and DynamoDB.
  • Left when Bio-Rad shut down its Israel office, and decided to combine all my skills with LLMs to build companies from the ground up.
2006 – 2015

Elbit Systems, Haifa

Team Lead and Software Developer

  • Hands-on team lead for multiple R&D projects, mainly image-processing applications, in C, C++ and C#.
2002 – 2006

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, C, C++, C#
Web
React, Node.js, Express, FastAPI, Flask
Cloud
AWS: Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFront, ECS, EventBridge, Step Functions, Athena, CloudWatch, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines. Docker.
AI
Design and implementation of LLM agents and AI-driven systems, on Anthropic and OpenAI models
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB
Spoken
Hebrew and English, both fluent
Off the trail
Mushroom expert and guide (mycelium.hamekomit.com), and creator of an online fungi series made with LLMs. Community entrepreneur: built hamekomit.com, a platform for local businesses and communities. Musician, playing concerts in the forest.
Reach me
oded.naftali@gmail.com, 054-9980981 (WhatsApp), linkedin.com/in/ramblinjack. Offer, Israel.

About the map: trails are marked the way Israeli hiking trails are, a colored stripe between two white ones. The terrain is generated from the career itself. Longer jobs make wider hills, bigger roles make higher ones.