Eyal Erez

Eyal Erez has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning over several years. Eyal currently holds the position of VP R&D at Walnut, starting in November 2022. Prior to this, Eyal served as the Engineering Group Manager at Waze from an unspecified time in 2020 until 2022. In this role, they led the Waze Infrastructure Group, restructuring smaller teams into a unified organization and implementing Agile principles to enhance efficiency.

From 2019 to 2020, Eyal worked as an Engineering Manager at Facebook, specifically leading the Novi Customer Care group and overseeing teams responsible for customer care, fraud, and compliance tools. During their time there, they significantly expanded the team's size.

From 2017 to 2019, Eyal served as an Engineering Director at Spotify, managing a team of 100 engineers across various locations. In this role, they oversaw projects related to music personalization, discovery, Spotify's Home recommendation page programming, search functionality, voice assistant, and tools for editorial music content. Prior to this, from 2013 to 2017, they also took on the role of Chapter Lead (Engineering Manager) at Spotify, where they grew the notifications team and led the rebuild of the email, push, and in-app notification system.

Eyal's earlier experiences include being an Engineering Manager at Amplify from 2008 to 2012, leading the Core Assessment product line, and working as an Engineering Manager at Rovi Corporation (now TiVo) from 2006 to 2008. At Rovi, they led a development team and was involved in the creation, deployment, and upgrades of the eRights Suite 4.x product.

Their career started with a role as a Senior Software Engineer at eSpoc, Inc. from 1999 to 2002, where they headed the AIS-Connect project, an automated trade delivery and integration system. Eyal also worked as a Software Engineer at Tadiran Systems from 1998 to 1999 and served in the Israel Defense Forces as a Sergeant First Class from 1994 to 1997.

Eyal Erez began their education at Ironi Alef from 1988 to 1994, where they did not obtain a degree or specialize in any field of study. Eyal then attended Brookdale Community College from 2001 to 2002, where they pursued a B.A. in Computer Science. Finally, Eyal Erez transferred to Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2002 and completed their B.A. in Computer Information Systems in 2003.