Alon Kenneth
Staff Software Engineer At GitHub at Microsoft
Israel
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Top SchoolAlon Kenneth is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years in the industry, currently shaping scalable architecture and performance for core GitHub features after leadership roles at Microsoft and Via. He combines hands-on backend and full-stack engineering with project and team leadership—most recently leading a team that doubled GitHub Issues page load performance for millions of daily users. At Microsoft he owned high-throughput services such as a Suggested Tasks API that handled 100M hourly calls and led a migration that brought 500K users into the ecosystem. His background spans cloud-native microservices, ML-backed recommendation systems, and large-scale telemetry and migration efforts, grounded in a BSc in Computer and Cognitive Science from Hebrew University. Known for practical creativity, he often blends machine learning insights into infrastructure problems, for example optimizing build systems and real-time recommendation engines. Based in Israel, he excels at turning complex, cross-team challenges into reliable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Cognitive Science, 90, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Cognitive Science, 90 at The Hebrew University
English, Spanish, Hebrew
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Github Skills (47)
printing10
github-issues10
shortcuts10
decorator10
clustering10
mysql9
shortcut9
lexer9
github9
scaling9
mousetrap9
ast-parser9
hotkeys9
scale9
database9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
idofishler/EmoChat
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes in 2 months
opentoklive-chatchatwebrtc-demowebrtc
akenneth/test-public-repo
Nov 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 2 years 3 months
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