Elad Kalif is a data engineer based in Tel Aviv with 10+ years of experience and currently building data infrastructure at Amazon. He is an Apache Airflow committer and PMC member who serves as a release manager for core and provider packages, contributing bug fixes, operator enhancements and CI/CD improvements to one of the most widely used workflow platforms. Elad has hands-on experience creating ETL pipelines, custom Airflow operators/hooks/sensors, migrating Airflow to Kubernetes, and designing data warehouses on BigQuery, Snowflake and Trino. Notably, he received a Google Open Source Peer Bonus in 2022 and mentors Outreachy interns to bring new contributors into open source. He combines open-source stewardship with production-grade engineering to deliver reliable, maintainable data platforms.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at ORT Braude College
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:1 release, 4659 reviews, 1642 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Elad made contributions to the Apache Airflow project, primarily focusing on code fixes and improvements within the context of authoring, scheduling, and monitoring workflows. The contributions included bug fixes related to incorrect parameters, improved documentation, and enhancements to operator functionality. They also demonstrated skills in implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and infrastructure components as evidenced by refactoring and contributing towards the project's maintainability.
Contributions:4 PRs, 120 pushes, 24 branches in 5 months
apacheairflowapache-airflow
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