Assaf Lavi
Lead Backend Engineer at Factify
Israel
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Top SchoolAssaf Lavi is a Lead Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data and distributed systems across cloud-native environments. He specializes in Java and Python, streaming, ETL, data warehousing and cost-efficient cloud architectures, and has led platform-wide initiatives such as a unified lakehouse, service-mesh API infrastructure, and petabyte-scale S3 archival tooling that delivered massive savings. Assaf blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership—mentoring senior engineers, running cross-domain working groups, and shaping engineering culture and delivery practices. He has a strong track record migrating legacy big-data stacks to modern architectures (Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, Kubernetes, Terraform) and an academic background in computational biology that informs his data-driven approach to problem solving. Based in Israel, he seeks impactful products where he can tackle hard engineering problems alongside talented teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science and Computational Biology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science and Computational Biology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (37)
uuid-generator8
transform8
data-modeling8
amazon8
amazon-web-services7
aws7
slack7
uuid7
command-line-interface7
jupyter-notebook6
aws-cli6
cli6
sql6
ipython6
indexing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
getnexar/wst-infra
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
assaflavi/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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