Bar Weiner
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Haifa District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolBar Weiner is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of professional experience currently building Alexa Shopping features on Amazon’s Conversation Understanding team. He brings a strong background in large-scale system development, information retrieval, and NLP-driven machine learning from prior roles at IBM’s AI Language team and Qualcomm. Bar contributes to open-source projects—most notably Flux for InfluxData—where he improved formatting, testing, and documentation, showing attention to developer experience as well as core functionality. He combines research-oriented thinking with production-grade engineering, making him comfortable moving models and IR systems into scalable services. Based in Haifa and trained at Technion in Computer Software Engineering, he blends rigorous academic foundations with hands-on product delivery. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and pragmatic, often surfacing small tooling and docs fixes that substantially improve team velocity.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
go10
documentation9
testing9
markdown-it8
markdown8
json7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/flux
May 2021 - Sep 2021
Flux is a lightweight scripting language for querying databases (like InfluxDB) and working with data. It's part of InfluxDB 1.7 and 2.0, but can be run independently of those.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 30 commits, 69 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bar's commits primarily focus on the Flux scripting language, with contributions spanning formatting, testing, and documentation. They made several fixes to the formatter, addressing conditional and "else" statement formatting, as well as general updates to the formatter's behavior. The user also contributed to testing, including output and readability improvements. Furthermore, they worked on documenting various packages within the InfluxData project, demonstrating an understanding of the codebase and a focus on improving user experience through clear documentation.
scriptinginfluxfaunadbqueryingsql
BarWeiner1/CCTBX-Crystallography-Intern
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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