Ron Balter

Engineering Team Lead

Full-stack product builder · Tel Aviv, Israel

Full-stack deliveryCloud-nativeAI/LLM systemsAutomationLeadership & mentoringShip fast, safely

Email

ron.balter@gmail.com

Location

Tel Aviv, Israel

About

Full-stack engineer and technical leader with 6+ years spanning corporate tech leadership, national volunteer initiatives, and freelance delivery. I build scalable systems end-to-end—backend, frontend, cloud, and AI/LLMs—with a bias for shipping reliable, testable products.

Leadership

Team lead, group tech lead, matrix management

Impact

Product launches, ARR growth, infra modernization

Experience

2018 – Present

Self-Employed

Freelance Software Engineer

Tel Aviv

Jun 2024 – Present

Current
  • Deliver end-to-end software solutions for diverse clients
  • Architect and deploy self-hosted LLM solutions with multi-client inferencing
  • Ship production-ready AI systems integrated into business workflows
  • Own the full lifecycle from requirements to deployment and maintenance

Israel Tech Guard

Technical Lead & Volunteer

Remote

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024

  • Led cross-functional volunteer teams during a national crisis
  • Coordinated engineers, data scientists, ML researchers, and PMs
  • Partnered with security agencies to deploy critical solutions quickly
  • Scaled onboarding, verification, and allocation across a large Discord platform

Cybereason

Group Tech Lead (promotion)

Tel Aviv

Mar 2023 – Oct 2023

  • Scaled successful architecture patterns across multiple product teams
  • Unified content delivery infrastructure across the organization
  • Drove consistency in engineering standards and architecture decisions

Cybereason

Software Engineering Team Lead

Tel Aviv

Nov 2021 – Mar 2023

  • Led 5 engineers and launched a new product line and reseller channel
  • Drove 3x QoQ sales growth to $1.5M ARR within three quarters
  • Cut feature delivery cycles by ~10% with pragmatic Agile practices
  • Built reusable microservices on Kubernetes (GKE) with strong documentation

Cybereason

Software Engineer

Tel Aviv

Nov 2019 – Nov 2021

  • Resolved long-standing core malfunctions to improve stability
  • Built atomic features to manage load in large-scale systems
  • Collaborated across teams to ship new capabilities safely

Microsoft

Software Engineering Intern

Haifa

Mar 2018 – Jun 2019

  • Contributed to SQL Security at Azure Security Center
  • Built vulnerability assessment features for SQL instances
  • Gained hands-on experience with enterprise-scale cloud security

Education

BSc in Computer Science

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

2016 - 2019 · GPA: 85

Core Strengths

System designCloud-native architectureLLM applicationsAutomation & dataMentoring & code reviewsProblem-first deliveryReliability & observability

Technical Skills

Selected

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTanStack (Query/Table/Router)ZustandZodReact Native & Expo

Backend

Java (Spring)Python (FastAPI, gRPC)Node.js (Express)PrismaREST & gRPC

AI / ML

LLMsOllamavLLMllama.cppInference at scaleWorkflow automation

Data & Automation

Playwright / SeleniumLarge-scale scrapingETL pipelinesData extraction & cleaning

Cloud & Infra

GCP / GKEAWSAzureKubernetesDockerTerraformHelmKustomizeServerless

DevOps & Observability

GitHub ActionsGitLab PipelinesJenkinsMulti-env deliveryGrafanaPrometheusElasticsearchOpenTelemetry

Databases

PostgreSQLSQLRedisMongoDBPrometheus (TSDB)

Architecture & Strengths

System designMicroservicesLLM-based decision systemsCloud-native patternsProblem-first deliveryAgile leadership

Let's build

Have a product to ship or a system to unstick?

Tell me about the problem, constraints, and timeline. I'll propose a lean path forward and execute end-to-end.