Dekel Honen
Senior Backend Engineer at Taboola
Be'er Sheva, South District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolDekel Honen is a Senior Backend Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building and leading backend systems, currently driving core services at Taboola. He is fluent in Kotlin and Go and has a strong track record designing microservices, orchestration using the HashiCorp stack, and implementing secure, performant data fragmentation, compression, and encryption. Dekel has served as a technical lead and mentor in high-stakes environments, including multiple leadership roles in the IDF where he built operational communication systems from scratch and led a fully automated testing initiative. He combines practical system design with day-to-day coding and devops skills (Kotlin, Git, Gradle), making him effective across the full development lifecycle. Based in Be'er Sheva, Israel, he brings a disciplined, production-first mindset shaped by military-grade reliability and pragmatic engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Programmimg Course (Mamram) Computer Programming, Programmimg Course (Mamram) Computer Programming at IDFPractical engineer Computer Science, Practical engineer Computer Science at Amal College
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (3)
kotlin-jvm7
discord-bot7
gradle5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MrN1ceGuy/Palawa_Boto
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
This is a discord bot is based on the most famous creature on the game Guild Wars 2, Palawa Joko
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years
discord-botdiskordgradleguildwars2kotlin-jvm
MrN1ceGuy/Lucky_or_Not
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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