Amit Barletz is a backend engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable services and data pipelines, currently focused on backend work at Surf AI. He has strong hands-on experience with Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, Prisma and Postgres from roles at Amplication and Matia, and has contributed to the notable open-source project Amplication by improving its Prisma schema parser and backend logic. Amit runs the technical blog Syntactic-Sugar, reflecting a habit of codifying learnings and explaining non-obvious implementation details. His background spans full-stack roles across React/Angular and MongoDB, giving him a practical understanding of end-to-end application behavior. Based in Netanya, Israel, he combines self-directed learning with consistent open-source contributions that emphasize tooling and developer experience.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Full stack developer, Full stack developer at Netcraft Academy
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions at Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College
Amplication brings order to the chaos of large-scale software development by creating Golden Paths for developers - streamlined workflows that drive consistency, enable high-quality code practices, simplify onboarding, and accelerate standardized delivery across teams.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 releases, 890 reviews, 1154 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Amit primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Amplication project, focusing on parsing Prisma schema files and handling ID type defaults. They implemented features to handle attribute groups and functions inside functions in the schema parsing process. Additionally, they addressed and fixed issues related to code review by addressing changes within several files related to database schema parser.
Contributions:113 reviews, 94 commits, 66 PRs in 4 months
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