Master's degree in Computer Science with passion and expertise in Web Search related technologies and algorithms. Creative developer with strong algorithmical background. Interested in Information Retrieval, Web search and its applications, Algorithms, Social networks, and Artificial Intelligence. Goals: Be creative, build successful products, work with great people.

Software Engineer @ From October 2011 to Present (4 years 3 months) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware design engineer @ I work in the Core Search organization of Bing - http://www.bing.com. Among my projects: Dynamic Web Crawling service and Web Answers Aggregator service for Bing distributed infrastructure platform. From April 2009 to September 2011 (2 years 6 months) Algorithm Engineer @ I worked on a research engine that combined Information Retrieval and Semantic technologies. I was in charge of design and development of major algorithmic aspects of the product. Some of the product aspects were based on the algorithms developed in my thesis. From April 2008 to February 2009 (11 months) Lecturer in charge in the “Object Oriented Programming” course @ C++ and OOP techniques. Undergraduate level course of 140 students. From April 2008 to October 2008 (7 months) Teaching assistant and Teaching assistant in charge @ "Introduction to Systems Programming" course. Advanced C and C++, OOP techniques, UNIX environment. Undergraduate level course of 250 students. I was in charge of a team of 5 teaching assistants. From October 2004 to February 2008 (3 years 5 months) Software Design Engineer @ Summer Intern. I worked on a reusable end to end GDI (Graphics Device Interface) test suite for RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) scenarios. I designed and implemented a new modular client server testing environment. From July 2007 to October 2007 (4 months) Verification Engineer @ Verification Engineer in the Digital cameras group. Design and implementation of verification environments for different HW blocks, including test plan definition, testing environment design and implementation, tests implementation. Responsible for verification of the following HW blocks: memory controller, Mpeg, Jpeg, flash card controller. The environment and tests were written in ‘e’ hardware verification language, Verilog, Perl, and C. Designed and implemented a full chip regression environment, in Perl and HTML. From October 2002 to August 2006 (3 years 11 months) Mortar Officer @ Officer at the rank of lieutenant. I was responsible for soldiers training. I managed a team of 5 guides. From September 1996 to March 1999 (2 years 7 months)

M.Sc., Computer Science @ Technion - Israel Institute of Technology From 2005 to 2008 B.Sc., Computer Engineer @ Technion - Israel Institute of Technology From 1999 to 2003 Li-Tal Mashiach is skilled in: Algorithms, OOP, Distributed Systems, Search, C++, Information Retrieval