Erez Arnon
Co-Founder & CTO at Canals
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolErez 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
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (11)
databases10
user-authentication10
authentication10
mongodb10
python10
back-end-development10
data-integration10
sql-database10
mongodb-database10
django10
integrations9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MongoEngine/django-mongoengine
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
django mongoengine integration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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.
djangomongoengine
TrueSkills/django-mongo-rest
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
A library that streamlines the creation of REST APIs using django and mongoengine
Contributions:65 commits, 4 PRs, 78 pushes in 5 months
djangomongoenginerestrest-api
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