Barak Alon
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarak Alon is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in the New York City area with 11 years of experience building backend systems at scale for product-driven companies like Airbnb and Netflix. He brings deep expertise in backend engineering, performance optimization, and system refactoring, honed through progressive roles from PlanGrid to his current leadership role at Airbnb. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable contributions to sqlglot, enhancing expression builders, logical condition handling, and subquery/date-function optimizations in a widely used Python SQL parser/transpiler. His background in mechanical engineering and early hands-on roles in manufacturing and control systems inform a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to software design. Colleagues describe him as a technical leader who pairs hands-on coding with architectural guidance to drive reliable delivery. He also completed executive leadership training at the University of Richmond, signaling a deliberate investment in people and organizational leadership alongside technical depth.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State UniversityProfessional Executive Leadership Program, Professional Executive Leadership Program at University of Richmond - Robins School of Business
Github Skills (12)
code-optimization10
sql-parser10
sql10
back-end-development10
python10
transpiler10
testing9
data-structure9
datastructures-algorithms9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tobymao/sqlglot
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Python SQL Parser and Transpiler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:563 reviews, 99 commits, 251 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Barak primarily contributed to building and enhancing the SQLglot library. Their work involved developing expression building capabilities, introducing logical condition builders, and refactoring parts of the codebase. They also focused on optimizations, including the implementation of features to handle date functions, and improving the way the library handles subqueries.
pythontranslationtsqlparserredshift
barakalon/mysql-mimic
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:41 reviews, 97 commits, 82 PRs in 5 months
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