Alon Cohen
Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAlon Cohen is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 10 years of experience building reliable, data-centric backend systems from Tel Aviv. He progressed from engineering roles at Salesforce—working on Health Cloud and blockchain platform features—to leading and managing teams at Pachyderm, where he contributed to critical server-side features and authentication improvements for a notable open-source data versioning project acquired by HPE. As Co-Founder of a stealth startup since 2025, he blends hands-on backend expertise (token migration, caching, log redaction) with product and operational leadership. Alon’s background in computer science and neuroscience (Magna Cum Laude) and early teaching experience suggest a rare mix of analytical rigor and clear technical communication. He favors pragmatic, secure engineering decisions that improve maintainability and performance at scale.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s of Science Magna Cum Laude Computer Science and Neuroscience, Bachelor’s of Science Magna Cum Laude Computer Science and Neuroscience at Brandeis University
Github Skills (11)
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
api10
postgresql10
apidoc10
database-design10
grpc10
data-structure9
distributed-systems9
data-structures9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pachyderm/pachyderm
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1036 reviews, 665 commits, 716 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alon made significant contributions to the codebase, primarily focusing on enhancing the server-side logic for the license and authentication features. Their work included refactoring existing code to redact sensitive information from log entries, implementing caching mechanisms for WhoAmI results to optimize performance, and migrating authentication token storage from etcd to Postgres for improved reliability and maintainability. The user also introduced new features like the "RevokeAuthTokensForUser" API, and enhanced existing gRPC and CLI operations.
containersanalyticsdata-analysispachydermpipeline
pachyderm/dex
Jul 2021 - Jan 2025
OpenID Connect Identity (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0 Provider with Pluggable Connectors
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 6 months
connect-identityoidcopenidprovideroauth-2
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