Avner Cohen
Arquitecto at Workday
Spain
Summary
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SeniorAvner Cohen is an experienced architect and hands-on engineering leader with 13+ years building and operating large-scale web and backend systems across startups and enterprises. He blends deep expertise in relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL tools (Redis, Solr, MongoDB) with a strong focus on performance tuning, CI/CD and organizational transformations to unlock engineering velocity. Avner has led platform and infrastructure teams at Fiverr and HiredScore, serving also as CISO and driving SOC2 and penetration-testing programs while keeping a developer-first mindset. He contributes to open-source (notably improving resque-web’s reliability and Resque 2.0 support) and prefers to stay hands-on in code even in senior roles. Based in Spain, he brings pragmatic UX and client-side sensibility to backend architecture, favoring lean/agile practices and measurable improvements in deployment cadence and system observability.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew, English, gibberish
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Github Skills (23)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
resque10
back-end-development10
testing10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
minitest10
unit-test10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
css9
mongodb9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
resque/resque-web
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
a Rails-based web interface to Resque
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Avner primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Resque-web application. They addressed a bug related to job requeueing by ensuring the original job was removed during the process. Additionally, they added support for Resque 2.0's API and implemented comprehensive test cases. Furthermore, the user allowed for configuration of an external Resque server and enhanced the user interface by adding a "last page" link to the failures view.
railsresque
AvnerCohen/ini-as-rest
May 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:3 releases, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 10 months
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