Erez Arnon is a seasoned software leader and founder with 12 years of experience building high-throughput backends and product-driven engineering teams. As Co-Founder & CTO of Canals and former Head of Engineering at Office Hours and Uncommon Co., he blends hands-on systems work (from custom data warehouses to search engines) with product and hiring strategy. He has deep Python/Django expertise, contributing to django-mongoengine to improve Django+MongoDB authentication and compatibility across versions. Comfortable across the stack, he’s shipped APIs, automated testing/deployment pipelines on AWS, and front-end prototypes early in product life cycles. Based in Miami, he offers a pragmatic mix of startup grit and technical depth, and regularly mentors founders and engineering leaders through public office hours.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Contributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 1 comment in 9 months
Contributions summary:Erez focused on improving the integration of Django with MongoDB in the `django-mongoengine` repository. They addressed issues related to user authentication, particularly with Django's `AbstractBaseUser` class, including correct function reuse. The user updated the codebase to be compatible with Django 1.10 and later versions, including adjustments for username length and other user model fields. Their contributions primarily involved modifying authentication backends and user models.
Contributions:65 commits, 4 PRs, 78 pushes in 5 months
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