Ariel Shaqed
Principal Engineer at lakeFS
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Shaqed is a Principal Engineer based in Tel Aviv with 11+ years building high-performance, production-grade systems that bridge algorithms, probabilistic modeling, and DevOps. He has deep experience deploying and operating complex distributed software—from low-latency financial monitoring and advanced networking at Google to serverless FaaS and data-versioning backends at Binaris and lakeFS. Ariel combines rigorous mathematical training (MSc in Mathematics) with hands-on backend work, notably contributing storage-class and continuous-export features to the popular open-source lakeFS project. He’s known for pragmatic, optimization-minded designs that keep systems “firmly attached to the real world,” and for an engineer’s wry skepticism embodied in his GitHub adage about special-case ifs making algorithms appear to work.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., Mathematics, M. Sc., Mathematics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (18)
back-end-development10
object-storage10
go10
golang10
aws-s310
data-storage9
versioning8
version-control8
data-versioning8
vector6
lakefs6
fs6
stl6
dictionary6
amazon-s36
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
treeverse/lakeFS
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
lakeFS - Data version control for your data lake | Git for data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 2907 reviews, 787 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily contributed to the back-end of the lakeFS project by implementing features related to file and object storage, specifically focusing on interactions with underlying storage backends such as S3. The commits involved modifications to block storage adapters, including adding support for storage classes. The user also refactored code, updated dependencies, and added code to facilitate continuous export of data, showcasing a focus on the efficient management and accessibility of data within the system.
data-lakelakefsversion-controldata-engineeringdata-versioning
arielshaqed/arielshaqed
Jan 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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