Doron Somech
Co-Founder & CTO at Unit
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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RockstarDoron Somech is a seasoned engineering leader and Co-Founder & CTO based in Tel Aviv with 13 years of hands-on experience building reliable distributed systems and developer tooling. He combines startup leadership with deep backend expertise, notably contributing to high-profile open-source projects in the ZeroMQ ecosystem (libzmq, jeromq, czmq) and the Pants build system to improve messaging semantics, thread safety, and Scala dependency compilation. Doron’s work spans C++, Java, and build-system internals, plus front-end touches for zeromq.org, showing a full-spectrum developer who cares about both performance and UX. At Unit he translates complex distributed and messaging challenges into production-ready solutions, and his open-source contributions reveal a pragmatic focus on testability, routing, and resource handling that often goes unseen in product roadmaps.
13 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (34)
page-layout10
c-language10
zeromq10
messaging10
layout10
api-design10
netmq10
css10
sass10
build-system10
mq10
c1110
networking10
java10
scala10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
zeromq/zeromq.org
Jun 2019 - Feb 2021
ZeroMQ Website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 61 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Doron primarily contributed to the website's front-end development, focusing on improving the user interface and user experience. They addressed missing elements, such as "Get Started" buttons and download information. The user made changes to layouts, including the home page and content sections, and modified the website's styling using SASS. These modifications enhanced the website's usability and added key features.
zeromq
zeromq/libzmq
Nov 2014 - Jul 2021
ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 292 commits, 250 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Doron primarily contributed to the core engine of ZeroMQ, focusing on enhancements to the XPUB socket. Their work involved adding manual control over subscriptions and implementing welcome messages for new subscribers. They also added features like setting server socket type and routing IDs for messages, as well as addressing issues with message handling related to the "more" flag in client and server sockets. The user also contributed to improving code quality and testability of the engine.
concurrencyzeromqnetworkingstreampushpull
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