Otniel Ben Amara

VP Data

2023 - Current

CDO as a Service

2022 - 2023

Providing CDO services to leading startups in Israel

Partner, CDO

2019 - 2022

Founded the Data Strategy department at TASC. Developed the consulting methodology, and hired and trained the data team. Devised data strategies for large corporations and government ministries. Led several national data initiatives, key examples include: - The architecture of the Israeli government’s national data lake - Data strategy for the Central Beuro of Statistics - Data Strategy for the Ministry of Transportation - Intelligence Strategy for the Tax Authority - Data Strategy for the Securities Authority - Data Strategy for the Customs Authority - Data Governance Strategy for the government’s API framework - Joint data strategy for the Israeli Police, State Attorney’s Office, and ​​Director of the Court's Office

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

2017 - 2019

Dojo BI is a 360 data studio for growing startups. Our profound experience in data engineering, analytics and data strategy, covers all aspects of data-driven growth. Our customers range from small teams, early growth startups to mid-size orgranizations with 500+ employees.

Engineer in Residence

2015 - 2017

Scaling Aleph through software. Leading the ‘Aleph Operating System’ project for optimizing deal-flow, smart deal-sourcing and nurturing the portfolio. Leading the product and development and community teams of Karma - a social network of 1500+ Israeli entrepreneurs, experts and industry leaders.

VP Data & Analytics

2013 - 2015

Datafying the company's quest for a growing, engaged and retained users community. Governing the company's data cycle of hypothesize->measure->learn->implement along side the community and product directors. Designing and implementing various data solutions for collecting, storing, analyzing and visualizing everything from predetermined KPIs to deep analysis of our social graph. Combining in house Storm->Redshift systems with 3rd party services such as Mixpanel, to form a set of tools ready to tackle each problem with the right solution.

Data Engineer

2010 - 2013

Developer in a DB services team of an IT management system for enterprizes. The position included mastering a high performance, big data, distributed system with top level data analytics capabilities.