Amitay Horwitz
Software Engineer at Google
Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAmitay Horwitz is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building web-oriented, production-grade systems across startups and large tech companies. He has worked on high-scale microservices at Wix (Scala, Kafka, Cassandra, event sourcing/CQRS) and now contributes to Google, bringing deep backend expertise and TDD-driven continuous delivery practices. His background spans malware-detection backend work at IBM, full-stack development in PHP/JavaScript, and data-focused tooling—demonstrating a rare blend of infrastructure, backend architecture, and pragmatic front-end skills. A Magna Cum Laude computer science graduate, he favors robust, test-first engineering and has a track record of shipping reliable systems that support millions of users. An unassuming strength is his adaptability across languages and paradigms, from Lua and Ruby on AWS to Scala-based distributed services.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (56)
cqrs9
concurrent9
asynchronous9
datomic9
kafka-streams9
kafka9
websocket9
stm9
todomvc9
stream-processing8
concurrent-programming8
concurrency8
php8
effects8
typesafe8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
amitayh/gofish
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:59 commits in 1 month
amitayh/react-redux-test
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Example code for my article - "TodoMVC on Steroids"
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 5 months
todomvc
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