Amitai Burstein
CTO at Gizra
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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RockstarAmitai Burstein is a seasoned CTO and technology architect with 16 years of experience leading high-quality web and open-source projects from Tel Aviv. As co-owner and technology lead at Gizra, he shaped the company's development methodology ("the Gizra way"), builds and mentors teams, and is a prominent contributor and architect in the Drupal ecosystem including Drupal 7/8 and the Open Scholar project. He blends hands-on backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to notable projects like IHP, Yesod, Backdrop CMS and RESTful-Drupal—with a focus on developer productivity, testing, and robust APIs. Amitai regularly speaks at DrupalCon and other community events, reflecting his commitment to open source collaboration and knowledge sharing. Less obvious: his contributions span multiple languages and frameworks (Haskell, PHP, and web frameworks), showing a habit of improving tooling and error handling to boost long-term maintainability.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (29)
application-framework10
api-rest10
drupal10
cms10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
app-framework10
mvc10
yesod10
php10
web-framework10
rest-api10
haskell10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
RESTful-Drupal/restful
Mar 2014 - Feb 2019
RESTful best practices for Drupal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:209 commits, 59 PRs, 107 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Amitai primarily contributed to the back-end of the RESTful best practices for Drupal project. Their initial commits involved adding plugins and implementing the `RestfulInterface` and `RestfulBase` abstract classes. Subsequent commits show the development of controller discovery mechanisms. The user also added support for various HTTP methods.
restfuldrupaldocker
digitallyinduced/ihp
Oct 2021 - May 2022
🔥 The fastest way to build type safe web apps. IHP is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:240 reviews, 156 commits, 124 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Amitai primarily contributed to the IHP framework by implementing new features and making improvements to existing functionality. Their work involved adding a `paramListOrNothing` function, which parses parameters, and improving error messages related to JSON views. Additionally, the user modified the pagination implementation, including the ability to specify a page size, and moved pagination to the CSS framework. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's API and view rendering.
batteriesfastesthaskelljavascripttype-safe
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