Well, all blogs have to start somewhere, so here is where I’m starting mine. My name is Ami Ohayon, and I live in Jerusalem. I’m in my late 20s, and work for a web development company here in Israel. I spent several years living in the United States, in Boston, where I was at university. I don’t plan to talk a great deal about my work on this blog, not because it’s so terrifically secretive or exciting or cutting edge, but because I’m more interested in writing about some of my personal experiences.

I grew up just outside Jerusalem, in a town called Mevasseret Zion. It is close enough that you could almost most call it a suburb of Jerusalem. After my service in the Israeli army, which is compulsory for young people leaving high school in Israel, I studied at the Hebrew University and took a degree in English literature. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t so easy to find work in that field, and through a combination of personal interest, connections, and desperation, I started working in the field of computers. Eventually I became skilled enough that I was working at a reasonably high level, and I then went to Boston for a couple of years to study for an MBA. More about Boston in my next post.