Dina Nimrodi
Director Of Research Engineering at Pagaya
Israel
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Top SchoolDina Nimrodi is a Director of Research Engineering with 13 years of experience leading teams that turn cutting-edge networking and big data research into production-ready systems. Currently at Pagaya, she progressed rapidly from team lead to director, blending hands-on engineering with strategic program management across research and product boundaries. Her background at Mellanox and Iguazio shows deep expertise in RDMA, network acceleration, and real-time data platforms, including contributions to libvma and integrations of RDMA into Spark and other BigData projects. She excels at optimizing low-level system behavior while managing cross-functional teams, and is comfortable moving between C/C++ and Java ecosystems to deliver measurable performance gains. Based in Israel, she brings a pragmatic research mindset that consistently drives scalable, high-performance data solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
network-programming10
bonds9
performance-optimization9
rdma9
bond9
binding9
linux8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Mellanox/libvma
May 2015 - Aug 2016
Linux user space library for network socket acceleration based on RDMA compatible network adaptors
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dina's contributions primarily involve modifying the `libvma` library's internal configurations and utilities. This includes adjustments to memory options, internal memory pool sizes, and ARP options within the `lwip` directory. The user also made updates to the bonding interface logic, improvements to the base interface retrieval, and refinements to the statistics-gathering features. These changes suggest a focus on optimizing network performance and internal system behavior.
socketlinuxaccelerationudpuser-space
dinal/v3io-tsdb
Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
iguazio API lib for time-series DB access and Prometheus TSDB storage driver
Contributions:1 PR, 157 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 6 months
apistorage-driverseries-dbprometheusstorage
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