Elyahou Ittah
Software Engineer at Connecteam
Israel
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Top SchoolElyahou Ittah is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading platform and backend teams, most recently serving as Software Engineer at Connecteam after several years as a Senior Tech Lead and Platform Lead at Fiverr. He combines hands-on backend development with leadership in scalable platform initiatives, shipping production systems and mentoring engineering teams. An active open-source contributor, Elyahou has contributed instrumentation, logging, and SSL fixes to the widely used ruby-kafka client, showing attention to observability and compatibility across runtimes. Based in Israel, he brings practical expertise in distributed systems and developer tooling, with a track record of improving reliability and metrics visibility in critical message-processing codepaths.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Jerusalem College of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
kafka10
statsd10
ruby10
rubygems9
testing9
ssl9
kafkajs8
kafka-node8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/ruby-kafka
Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
A Ruby client library for Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 35 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Elyahou contributed to the implementation of metrics reporting using Statsd, adding instrumentation for various Kafka client operations such as connection requests, consumer processing, and producer actions. They also addressed a bug related to SSL authentication for older Ruby versions. The user improved the logging of fetcher queue sizes and made a code change to handle timestamps in record batches.
apache-kafkaruby-gemkafka-consumerclient-libraryruby-client
Elyahou/kong-build-tools
Feb 2021 - Sep 2023
Build tools to package and release Kong
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
kongbuild-tools
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