About Me
I was a tech lead at the Israeli Military Intelligence, then worked at Google London on Android, and then at Magic Leap, on an AI pipeline for world understanding. I also taught at Tel Aviv university, as a lecturer on information security, advanced software design, and impact-oriented programming.
Today I provide software design and development services, specializing in code generation and meta-programming, and teach courses to individuals and organizations.
Feel free to drop me a line at dan.gittik@gmail.com.
Experience
Lecturer
Tel Aviv University
Created a course on advanced system design, ran a workshop where students team up with labs and NGos to work on real life problems, and lectured on information security, making the most popular cyber security online course of 2019.
Senior Deep Learning Engineer
Magic Leap
Senior deep learning engineer, tasked with designing and implementing the Memory Graph: a data pipeline for world understanding, with an innovative API for spatial computing.
Senior Software Engineer
Google London
Senior software engineer on the Android Framework Team, in charge of display.
Tech Lead and Corporate Innovator
Israeli Military Intelligence
Tech lead and corporate innovator, with experience in low-level technologies, high-level data pipelines, software design and architecture, DevOps, and product, steering cross-departmental projects and leading a team of 5 software engineers. Honorably discharged as captain.
Projects
Advanced System Design
Idea, Design, Code, Content, Teaching
A course about everything I wish I'd known, aimed at empowering you to be your startup's CTO: from advanced Python programming, through system design and architecture, to DevOps, web technologies, and the philosophy behind it all.
Impact-Oriented Programming
Idea, Design, Code, Content, Teaching
A workshop on how to use your coding superpowers for the greater good. In it, students team up to work on real life problems with labs and NGOs, and build software infrastructure that actually advances science and makes a social impact: from growing cultured meat, through modernizing physical experiments with computer vision, to helping a refugee clinic in south Tel Aviv.
Introduction to Information Security
Design, Code, Content, Teaching
A course covering the foundations of cyber security: from reverse-engineering and buffer overflows to network and web vulnerabilities, as well as cryptography, computer viruses and various defenses and mitigations.
Unlocking Information Security
Content, Teaching
An online course on information security, developed in collaboration with TAU Online and EDX. With more than 10,000 enrolled and a 5/5 rating, it's the best and most popular cyber security MOOC of 2019.
All Things Urban
Idea, Code
All Things Urban is a career platform for urban professionals working on city challenges worldwide. We share handpicked career and educational opportunities in areas of urban planning, studies and design and connect thousands of passionate urban professionals to real-world projects.
Alexander Aksinin's Website
Design, Code
An amazing graphic artist and a good friend of my parents, Alexander Aksinin died in a plane crash in 1985, and we've been collecting, cataloguing and promoting his work ever since; this is his official website.
Roni Aviv's Website
Code
Roni Aviv is an artist and photographer based in New York, an MFA at Columbia University, and a dear friend. Her work is a visual and psychological inquiry into the underaddressed surfaces and experiences that are ubiquitous in our everyday lives. This website is her online portfolio, where you can find her own works, combining photography with text, drawing, and household materials, as well as her curatorial projects.
So&So's Website
Code
Daniel Zinn is an amazing violinist and conductor based in New York, and a childhood friend. He's co-founded So&So, a classical music production company that creates 21st century symphonic events. The minimalist website ties together So&So’s various online expressions with essential information about the company.