Benjamin Tamir
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Israel
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Top SchoolBenjamin Tamir is a Principal Software Engineer based in Israel with a deep engineering pedigree spanning over two decades of professional experience and formal MSc training in mathematics, computer science and AI. He has been with Microsoft and its Israel R&D center for the bulk of his career, advancing from senior development roles into principal engineering leadership focused on large-scale, production-grade systems. Known for longevity and institutional knowledge, he blends rigorous academic foundations with practical product delivery across long-lived platform projects. Colleagues would describe him as a steady technical steward who mentors teams, drives architectural decisions, and navigates complex legacy-to-modernization efforts. An interesting, less-obvious detail: his career timeline reflects early hands-on product development in the late 1990s through to contemporary cloud and enterprise-scale engineering, indicating strong adaptability across multiple technology eras.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Mathematics, Computer, AI, M.Sc., Mathematics, Computer, AI at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
Github Skills (16)
rest9
openapi9
azure9
swagger9
rest-api8
azure-cosmos-db8
microsoft-azure7
dotnet7
csharp6
azure-functions4
azure-sdk4
dotnet-core4
microsoft4
sql3
coreclr2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-rest-api-specs
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
microsoft-azurerestrest-apiazureswagger
Azure/azure-cosmos-dotnet-v3
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
.NET SDK for Azure Cosmos DB for the core SQL API
Contributions:5 comments, 1 issue in 4 days
azure-cosmos-dbdotnetsql
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