Amit Gilad
Founder & CEO at LakeOps
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Gilad is a software engineer-turned-founder with 11 years of hands-on experience designing distributed systems, data pipelines, and backend microservice architectures. Now CEO of LakeOps and previously a data engineer at Cloudinary and a core early developer at Bit, he combines pragmatic engineering with product-minded leadership to build scalable data platforms. He specializes in data lakes and Apache Iceberg, having migrated petabyte-scale workloads to the cloud and architected graph database models for security analytics. An active contributor to the teambit/bit project, Amit bridges frontend and backend concerns, shipping features and fixes across the stack. Based in Tel Aviv, he’s as comfortable untangling low-level build scripts as he is shaping long-term architectures that anticipate future needs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
vue-jsx9
ui-components9
vue9
component-based9
nodejs9
typescripts8
typescript8
react8
typescript-types8
backend7
frontend7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
teambit/bit
Feb 2017 - Aug 2018
AI-powered development workspaces with reusable components, architectural clarity and zero overhead.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:169 commits, 170 PRs, 751 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Amit contributed to the Bit project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to various aspects of the application. They made changes to build scripts, including adding dependencies and configuring Windows installations. Code modifications spanned both frontend and backend code, including UI components and command line interfaces. The user also made contributions to the codebase, adding new features.
aireactjavascripttypescriptfront-end
amitgilad3/iceberg-python
Aug 2024 - Jul 2025
Apache PyIceberg
Contributions:52 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
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