Noa Barzelay

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Product Manager · Wenrix

• Owned Wenrix's core predictive-pricing platform (~60% of company revenue); drove roadmap through R&D and GTM to +$2M annual revenue increase (10%) in 10 months via usage and margin expansion.
• Led cross-functional team of 15 engineers, researchers and sales in launching two new products, from customer discovery to activation and monetization utilizing A/B-tested rollouts; +$2.5M ARR (12% of company revenue) in 6 months.
• Drove enterprise adoption, including nine strategic contracts, owning product engagements with enterprise executives on needs and outcomes, technical integration (APIs, custom builds) and quality, security and cost trade-offs.
• Ideated and launched AI automation + infra platform to cut new-customer time-to-value 30% with roadmap to self-serve offering unlocking the long-tail market (~3x revenue potential).

Software Engineer → Software Engineer II · Microsoft

• Owned core ML-based detection services and KPIs, re-architecting the platform for hyperscale, migrating it to Kubernetes with zero-data-loss cutover and cutting production errors from thousands per hour to tens.
• Initiated and led 4 engineers in building a CI/CD platform validating and automatically mitigating platform quality regressions, improving DORA metrics; now the safety standard across three engineering groups.
• Built a self-serve researcher/developer platform to ship new cybersecurity ML logic, cutting time-to-protection against emerging threats from months to hours; widely adopted.
• Cut platform compute up to 30% ($3M/yr) and sped core processing up to ~5x through re-prioritizing detection workloads by impact, algorithmic optimization, and demand-based autoscaling.

MBA Investment Associate · Antler

• Source and lead deals driven by authored technical investment theses on how AI reshapes enterprise software, infrastructure, and security (including agentic-AI security, computer-use agents, GPU/TPU neoclouds).
• Build and own a multi-agent research and deal-sourcing platform used across the investment team.

MBA Investment Associate, Founding Member · Canopy

• Identified and evaluated AI infrastructure startups incl. market breakdown, growth trajectory, technical product and roadmap.
• Designed and built an agentic deal-sourcing and evaluation framework, identifying high-potential AI infrastructure ventures.

Flight Academy Cadet → Aerial Operations Officer

• Directed real-time missions of Israeli Air Force aircraft, helicopter, and UAV; led a team of officers and collaborated daily with IAF Generals and with the US Air Force in joint counter-terrorism missions involving 50+ personnel.
• Selected to the elite IAF Pilots Course (~4% admission); reached top-quartile and remained the last woman in the squadron.

MBA · Columbia Business School

• GMAT Score: 780 (99th percentile).
• Honors: Dean's List (9.63/10 GPA); merit-based scholarship, 65% of tuition.
• Extracurricular: AI Club, Tech Club, VC Club, Entrepreneurship Club Vice President.

BS, Computer Science & Economics (Double Major) · Tel Aviv University

• Honors: Magna Cum Laude in Economics (95th percentile); Academic Excellence Scholarship.