Eran Hammer-Lahav is the founder of Hueniverse, a small internet startup building social content distribution technologies, focused on scalability and performance. Coming from the financial services and non-profit industries, Eran has over 15 years experience designing, implementing, and managing complex software projects. Prior to Hueniverse, Eran served as Director of Software Development at Knight Trading Group, Vice President at Citi, Head of IT Operations for Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak during his first campaign, and Architect at ORT Israel building a student-driven social network. In 1994 he founded A Different Stage, the first online publishing house for Israeli literature, and a short stories printed publication. Eran attended the Tel Aviv University Film School.
Eran Hammer-Lahav also served as the editor for the core OAuth specification. In 2008, he joined Yahoo!’s Social Platform team in the newly created role of Open Standards Evangelist.
