Elazar Cohen
Algorithm Developer at MRI2CT
Jerusalem District, Israel
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Top SchoolElazar Cohen is an algorithm developer with eight years of experience building computer-vision and developer-focused tooling, currently working on medical imaging algorithms at MRI2CT after a five-year tenure at RSIP Vision. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and brings strong academic grounding to applied algorithm design. Elazar is an active open-source contributor, notably enhancing the widely used VSCodeVim extension with pattern-matching, bracket movement and Windows filename-completion improvements that reflect attention to both core functionality and user experience. He combines practical research skills with production-minded engineering, shipping robust fixes and features across codebases. Based in the Jerusalem District, he blends a competitive hackathon spirit—third place at HUJI Hackathon—with a steady record of delivering algorithmic solutions in commercial and clinical contexts.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Github Skills (12)
vim10
regular-expression10
typescript10
typescripts10
vscode-extension10
pattern-matching10
typescript-types10
testing9
keybindings9
refactoring8
command-line-interface8
refactor8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
VSCodeVim/Vim
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
:star: Vim for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 44 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Elazar primarily contributed to the `vscodevim/vim` repository, focusing on enhancing and maintaining the Vim emulation within Visual Studio Code. Their work included implementing features such as support for the `\%V` atom in pattern matching, case-insensitive file name completion on Windows, and incorporating last/next movements for bracket objects. They also addressed various bug fixes related to search history and command-line interactions. These contributions demonstrate a focus on both improving the core functionality and user experience of the Vim extension.
visual-studio-codevimvscodevscode-extensionkeybindings
elazarcoh/simply-view-image-for-python-debugging
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
visual studio code extension simply view the image of the image variables when debugging python
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 161 commits in 2 years 5 months
pythonvisual-studio-codevscode-extensionvscodevisual-studio-code-extension
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