Almog Tal
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAlmog Tal is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Tel Aviv District with three years of professional experience and a background in computer software engineering from Technion and Psagot. He has moved quickly from senior engineering and team lead roles in the Israeli government to impactful backend contributions at Algorand and a current senior role at Wiz, demonstrating strength in distributed systems and secure, production-grade code. Notably, his open-source work on Algorand’s official Go implementation included fixes for ledger concurrency issues, API and state-proof message handling, and tooling improvements like .tar.gz support for catchpoint dumps. Comfortable in high-stakes environments, he combines practical systems debugging with an interest in blockchain infrastructure and operational reliability.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Psagot
Github Skills (8)
go10
api10
apidoc10
cryptography9
blockchain9
file-handling9
algorithms8
database-management7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
algorand/go-algorand
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Algorand's official implementation in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:112 reviews, 51 commits, 19 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Almog's contributions primarily involve modifications to the Algorand Go implementation, specifically focusing on changes related to state proof messages and API routes. They addressed issues by updating the codebase to improve efficiency and functionality. The user also implemented support for .tar.gz files within the `catchpointdump` command and addressed a bulletin leak issue. Furthermore, the user fixed a potential double unlock issue within the ledger system.
algorandgo
almog-t/go-algorand-sdk
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
Algorand Golang SDK
Contributions:8 PRs, 68 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 7 months
golanggolang-sdkblockchainalgorandsdk
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