Barak Orion
Core Developer at FalkorDB
South District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolBarak Orion is a seasoned core developer and engineering leader with over 17 years of software development experience and a 14-year track record of leading teams across distributed systems, in-memory computing, and data platforms. He combines deep expertise in concurrency and server-side architectures with hands-on fluency in Scala, Java, Go, Rust, Haskell, JavaScript and Elm, frequently coaching teams to adopt lean practices and stronger development methodologies. His roles—ranging from R&D head at GigaSpaces to Data Team Leader at Totango and now core developer at FalkorDB—showcase a pattern of turning research-grade algorithms into production-ready products. Barak takes particular pride in mentorship and building high-performing teams, protecting engineers from politics while helping them grow technically. He also teaches programming languages at the university level, reflecting a commitment to both practical systems engineering and rigorous foundations. An engineer who values discovery as much as invention, he enjoys working where novel algorithms meet real-world scale.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, computer science, MSc, computer science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (91)
graph-database10
adjacency-matrix10
datagrid10
microservices10
cloud-native10
rmi10
linux10
devtools10
knowledge-graph10
sdk10
elasticity10
realtime-database10
developer-tools10
database10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
FalkorDB/falkordb-rs
Oct 2024 - Jul 2026
A Rust 🦀 client for the fastest graph database on earth!
Contributions:22 reviews, 38 PRs, 146 pushes in 1 year 9 months
graph-databaserustdatabasedatabase-driverknowledge-graph
FalkorDB/text-to-cypher
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
Text To Cypher Backend
Contributions:10 reviews, 6 PRs, 110 pushes in 1 year
backendcypher
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