Nitay Sheffer

Technical Product Managerwith vast hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps and MLOps.I thrive in dynamic environments, balancing meticulous attention to detail with big-picture strategic thinking.

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Professional Experience

2024–2026

Product Incubation Program Manager

Unit 81, IDF Intelligence Corps

Product discoveryStrategy & roadmapsMultidisciplinary R&D
  • Initiated and led development of multidisciplinary products involving HW, SW, RF, mechanics, industrial design, acoustics and more, from discovery and validation through POC to delivery.
  • Owned product strategy for a complex, multifaceted intelligence domain, aligned to a unified, cross-organizational roadmap.
  • Nurtured partnerships with peer organizations, guiding joint R&D efforts across multiple technological domains and aligning them with the strategic roadmap and priorities.

2022–2024

DevOps & MLOps Engineer

Unit 81, IDF Intelligence Corps

KubernetesArgo WorkflowsPrometheusGrafanaELKKEDACI/CD
  • Established, designed, implemented and managed ML cloud infrastructure and workflows from the ground up, supporting R&D of ML/AI apps and algorithms including model training and inference.
  • Built an ML pipeline orchestration platform using Argo Workflows and Kubernetes, accelerating pipelines and increasing data processing capacity.
  • Designed, deployed, and managed Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical operational apps and staging/dev environments, supporting complex, cross-network SDLC workflows.
  • Implemented monitoring and self-healing solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and KEDA.
  • Deployed and managed ELK infrastructure and data solutions, including Elasticsearch clusters, logs and metrics processing pipelines using Beats and Logstash, and data visualization through Kibana.
  • Collaborated with software and algorithm R&D teams on system architecture and established DevOps, SRE and MLOps practices. Introduced and implemented new technologies and methods to improve efficiency and developer experience, including CI/CD, observability, and SDLC workflows.

2021–2022

DevOps Engineer

Digital Architecture Department, IDF Ground Forces

  • Led development of cloud infrastructure products, served as the department’s one-stop-shop solution architect.
  • Researched and evaluated emerging cloud computing, SRE and DevOps technologies to support establishment of practices and policies for IDF Ground Forces cloud architecture.

Department excellence awardReceived for outstanding performance (2021)

Volunteering Experience

2021–2025

Senior Operations Project Manager

FIRST Israel

  • Full responsibility over logistics operations of a national educational robotics competition program.
  • Planned and directed major E2E import/export operations by land, sea and air, handling certification approvals and complex customs clearance procedures. Reduced delivery times to half while keeping cost change at minimum if any.

National Outstanding Volunteer of the YearReceived the award in 2023.

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