Na'aman Hirschfeld
Founder at Kreuzberg
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNa'aman Hirschfeld is a Berlin-based software architect and founder with 8 years of experience designing high-performance, k8s-native cloud systems and resilient backend platforms. He co-founded BaseMind.AI and GrantFlow.AI/Vsphera and is the creator and active maintainer of Litestar, a production-ready ASGI API framework, with notable contributions to djangorestframework-stubs and polyfactory. His work spans deep Python and database expertise—large-scale migrations, low-latency microservices, OpenAPI/schema and typing improvements—combined with hands-on delivery across infrastructure and product. A former humanities scholar (MA summa) and cook, he brings cross-disciplinary rigor, a strong editorial sensibility, and practical craftsmanship to API design and developer workflows. Open to high-end freelance or strategic technical roles, he specializes in turning complex legacy stacks into scalable, well-typed, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Cultural Studies, Master of Arts - MA Cultural Studies at The Hebrew University of JerusalemMERN stack bootcamp, MERN stack bootcamp at IronhackDoctoral Candidate, Cultural Studies, Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin
Hebrew, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
data-generation10
api-doc10
typechecking10
python10
django10
testing10
mypy10
http10
django-rest10
openapi310
openapi-310
pep10
typehinting10
api10
django-rest-framework10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
litestar-org/polyfactory
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Simple and powerful factories for mock data generation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 releases, 139 reviews, 104 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Na'aman contributed to the `litestar-org/polyfactory` repository, which focuses on mock data generation. Their commits primarily involved refactoring and expanding functionality related to the pydantic_factories library, a core component of the project. This included adding support for new features like handling naive classes and discriminated unions, as well as fixing bugs and improving existing features. The user also addressed testing flakiness and improved overall code quality.
pythongenerationfactorydataclassespydantic
litestar-org/litestar
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Production-ready, Light, Flexible and Extensible ASGI API framework | Effortlessly Build Performant APIs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 releases, 1206 reviews, 619 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Na'aman primarily contributed to the development of the Litestar API framework's core functionalities, focusing on exception handling, and modifying the structure of route handlers. The user also made updates to support HTTP connection and fix various issues including the integration of multipart form data and improving the tests. Furthermore, the user implemented the option to control OpenAPI schema by alias, including the generation of schema for Annotated types.
api-clientapiasgipythonredoc
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