Tikal is a hands-on technology consultancy founded in Israel in 1999 by Lior Kanfi. Originally established as a knowledge management startup, it has evolved over more than 25 years into an engineering consultancy that embeds directly within client teams to extend their development capacity. Professionals from Tikal work as integral members of client engineering organisations rather than as external advisors, covering domains including AI/ML, Backend and Data, DevOps, Fullstack, and web development.
The company fields more than 50 DevOps professionals and offers flexible engagement models - from placing a single specialist to deploying full cross-domain squads. Project work spans microservices transformations, data lake implementations, and cloud-native architectures, among other areas. Tikal positions itself to become operational within a client environment quickly, with an emphasis on immediate contribution.
Beyond client work, Tikal founded and continues to drive the Israeli Tech Radar, an industry initiative that tracks technology trends and best practices across the Israeli technology sector.