Alex Friedman
Staff Data Engineer
Israel
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlex Friedman is a Staff Data Engineer based in Israel with eight years of focused experience building and scaling data and database systems across cloud and enterprise environments. He progressed from hands-on DBA roles to leadership positions—culminating as Director of Database Engineering at Payoneer and Senior Database Engineer at AWS—now applying that depth at Meta. Alex blends deep operational expertise in Oracle, SQL Server, and large-scale cloud databases with a practical, security-conscious mindset, evidenced by his backend contributions to the World Cube Association site (improving security, indexing, and locale handling). Known for diving into technical details and building robust processes, he helps teams turn complex data requirements into reliable, production-ready systems. His background in industrial engineering complements his systematic approach to performance tuning, observability, and cross-functional collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Industrial Engineering and Management, BSc Industrial Engineering and Management at Tel Aviv University
Github Skills (9)
rails10
database-design10
mysql10
ruby-on-rails10
security9
tournament9
speedup8
cubing8
wcag8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thewca/worldcubeassociation.org
May 2019 - Apr 2020
All of the code that runs on worldcubeassociation.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 16 PRs, 1 push in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on the back-end logic of the WCA website. Their contributions included implementing security features to prevent banned users from registering or undeleting registrations. They also addressed database-related issues, specifically quoting reserved keywords and adding indexes for performance. Furthermore, the user added server settings checks and fixed locale issues for emails.
worldcubeassociationrunscubingspeedcubingwca
tussosedan/kuebiko-cubing
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
Analyze speedcubing timers export data with interactive charts and data insights
Contributions:107 commits, 3 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 years 5 months
chartsexportdata-exporttimersdata-insights
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