Ofir Pernik
Building agentic AI at Wonderful

Ofir Pernik

Founding Engineer @ Wonderful

Building enterprise-grade agentic AI. Deep roots in low-level systems, security, and shipping products that scale.

Tel Aviv, Israel
Founding Engineer
@ Wonderful
8+ yrs
building production systems
Unit 8200
cyber security R&D alum
About

Hey, I'm Ofir

I'm a founding engineer at Wonderful, where we build agentic AI that runs real customer operations for enterprises - across voice, chat, and email, in 30+ countries. I also own our security posture as we scale.

Before that I spent nearly four years at Blink Ops as an early engineer and tech lead, designing the platform's architecture from the ground up - authentication and access control, multi-tenancy, and the Kubernetes-based infrastructure behind it.

My foundation is low-level: C/C++ and Python R&D in Unit 8200, where I built mission-critical security systems and taught the next generation of cyber engineers. I care about simplicity, documentation, and tests as much as the solution itself.

Career

Experience

Wonderful

Current
Tel Aviv, Israel
  1. Jan 2025 - Present

    Founding Engineer

    Founding engineer at an agentic-AI platform for enterprise contact centers, live in 30+ countries. Building the systems that let AI agents handle real customer operations across voice, chat, and email - and owning our security posture as we scale.

    • Go
    • Python
    • AI Agents
    • AWS
    • Security

Blink Ops

· 3 yrs 9 mos
Tel Aviv, Israel
  1. Feb 2023 - Jan 2025

    Tech Lead Engineer

    Led a core team building Blink's no-code security automation SaaS. Owned architecture decisions end to end, drove authentication and access control across the platform, and worked shoulder-to-shoulder with product and DevOps to hit critical milestones in a fast-moving startup.

    • Go
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • AWS
    • Auth0
  2. May 2021 - Feb 2023

    Senior Software Engineer

    Joined as an early engineer and designed core platform architecture from the ground up - multi-tenancy, identity, and the containerized infrastructure powering 900+ pre-built automation workflows.

    • Go
    • Bash
    • Amazon Cognito
    • PostgreSQL

Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200

· 3 yrs 3 mos
Israel
  1. Feb 2018 - Apr 2021

    Cyber Security R&D

    Built mission-critical security systems for the Israeli cyber-security sector, leading development from research through to distribution-ready products. Owned an extensive back-end infrastructure that accelerated development department-wide, and ran system characterization, DDRs, and code reviews.

    • C / C++
    • Python
    • Low-Level Windows/Linux
    • IDA
    • Docker
  2. Jan 2020 - Sep 2020

    Course Instructor - "Apollo"

    Commanded and mentored a group of soldiers through an elite classified intelligence course. Taught everything from low-level system internals to high-level software architecture, and continuously revised the curriculum to match the frontier of the field.

    • C++
    • Operating Systems
    • Assembly
    • Mentorship
Toolkit

Skills

Languages
  • Go
  • C / C++
  • Python
  • Bash
  • TypeScript
Platform & Infra
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL
  • CI/CD
Security & Identity
  • Authentication & Access Control
  • Keycloak
  • Okta
  • Auth0
  • Amazon Cognito
  • Wiz
  • Datadog
  • Vanta
Focus
  • Agentic AI
  • Distributed Systems
  • Low-Level Development
  • Architecture
  • Mentorship
Background

Education

2018

Israel Defense Force, Unit 8200 - "Apollo" Course

Computer Software Engineering

Elite cyber security R&D course covering low-level development, operating systems, and software architecture.

2015 - 2017

Magshimim - National Cyber Education Program

Computer Software Engineering

Israel's national three-year cyber program for outstanding students; later returned as a teaching assistant.

Writing

Articles