Effi Ofer
Researcher at IBM
Israel
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Top SchoolEffi Ofer is a seasoned researcher and software engineer with over 20 years of experience designing high-availability database systems and leading applied research at IBM in cloud object storage, analytics, and ML engineering. He has driven end-to-end development—from architecture and patents to benchmarking and customer engagements—on projects such as DB2 HADR, pureScale, AI-driven caching, and hybrid cloud data warehousing. His work has earned multiple technical achievement awards and best-poster recognition, and resulted in several patents and peer-reviewed publications across storage, analytics, and ML systems. Known for turning deep systems expertise into practical, high-performance products, he blends low-level database internals with cloud-native integration to improve real-world analytics and ML workloads. Based in Israel with a Master’s in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, he also brings the rare perspective of long-term product ownership combined with ongoing research impact.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) at Tel Aviv UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (67)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
effi-ofer/edge-mc
Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
KubeStellar - a flexible solution for challenges associated with multicluster configuration management for edge, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud
Contributions:4 PRs, 505 pushes, 79 branches in 1 year 2 months
effi-ofer/ceph
Jun 2020 - Sep 2023
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
file-storagentfscephglusterfscloud-storage
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