Amnon Shochot
Staff Software Development Engineer at Gong
Israel
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Top SchoolAmnon Shochot is a Staff Software Development Engineer based in Israel with two decades of engineering experience and over a decade in senior roles, specializing in scalable, data-intensive systems and service architectures. He has led design and delivery of high-throughput pipelines (e.g., streaming ~500K/min documents to Snowflake via Kafka) and driven significant cost and latency reductions through pragmatic re-architecture. His background spans cloud and on-prem systems at Microsoft, Amazon Alexa, and Gong, blending hands-on coding, DevOps, and on-call leadership with people mentoring. An early contributor to Microsoft’s Application Insights Java SDK, he has deep experience in telemetry, build systems, and large-scale data acquisition. He combines rigorous academic training (MSc, Technion) with a track record of translating complex requirements into production-grade, operationally resilient services.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
azure-application-insights10
java10
javas10
build-management10
app-insights10
gradle10
artifactory9
intellij-idea9
java-agent9
sdk9
telemetry9
distributed-tracing8
gradle-plugin6
android6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Application Insights for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:179 commits, 78 PRs, 106 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Amnon primarily focused on modifying and adjusting the build process of the Application Insights for Java SDK. Their contributions included adapting the build to use JDK 6, and making the TelemetryBuffer configurable along with DeveloperMode configurations. The user also addressed double-sending of telemetry events and extended the RemoteDependencyTelemetry class. These changes demonstrate a focus on build management, telemetry processing, and expanding the SDK's capabilities.
java-agentapplication-insightssqlobservabilitysdk
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