Ernest Zaslavsky
Software Engineer at ScyllaDB
Petah Tikva, Center District, Israel
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolErnest Zaslavsky is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency systems, currently working on AWS S3-focused storage at ScyllaDB. He has led technical teams and architected cloud-scale data warehouses and serving infrastructure during senior roles at Firebolt and Sizmek, blending hands-on C++ systems work with leadership. A long-time contributor to the C++ ecosystem, he has maintained and integrated complex libraries into Microsoft’s widely used vcpkg package manager, including storage- and networking-focused projects like SPDK and DPDK. His background spans performance-critical storage, hardware-accelerated media, and JNI-based Java/C++ interoperability, showing both depth in native systems and practical cross-language engineering. Based in Petah Tikva, Israel, he brings a pragmatic focus on squeezing latency out of real-world systems while mentoring teams to make scalable designs operational.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Pre-university studies, B.Sc. Pre-university studies at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyB.Sc Software Development & System Analysis, B.Sc Software Development & System Analysis at Champlain College
Russian, Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
3,089reputation
1.1mreached
40answers
91questions
Github Skills (22)
c-language10
lib10
package-management10
build-system10
cmake10
package-manager-tool10
x86-6410
dpdk10
vcpkg10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
pdk9
sdk9
linux8
windows8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Package Maintainer
Backend Developer & Package MaintainerContributions:1 review, 18 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ernest primarily contributed to the project by adding and integrating various C++ libraries as packages within the vcpkg ecosystem. Their work involved creating portfiles, configuration files, and integration scripts to build and install dependencies like Intel's ISA-L, DPDK, and IPsec-MB. The user also worked on integrating storage-related libraries such as SPDK into the package manager, expanding the available tools for C++ developers. They addressed architectural constraints, including platform and architecture compatibility, and incorporated specific build configurations and dependencies.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
kreuzerkrieg/CPPJunk
Jul 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 74 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.