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.
14 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 (71)
client-library10
concurrent10
sasl10
continuation9
effects9
almond9
extensible9
asynchronous9
php9
functional-programming9
scala9
raii9
producer9
bundle8
zio8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
amitayh/gofish
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:59 commits in 1 month
amitayh/event-sourcing-kafka-streams
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:50 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
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