Eshcar Hillel
Distinguished Research Engineer at Astera Labs
Binyamina - Givat Ada, Haifa District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolEshcar Hillel is a Distinguished Research Engineer with 11 years of experience designing scalable systems and AI infrastructure, currently focused on overcoming the GPU memory wall at Astera Labs. He has led research and engineering efforts across AI storage and inference at Pliops and scalable platform initiatives at Yahoo, contributing to Apache DataSketches and Apache HBase while serving on program committees for OPODIS, SRDS and other top systems venues. His background blends deep academic training (PhD track, Technion) with hands-on systems work from C++ spatial extensions at HP Labs to building recommender engines and large-scale analytics platforms. Eshcar is known for turning research insights into production-grade solutions for LLMs, DLRMs and GNNs, and for bridging research, open-source, and product teams. Based in Israel, he combines a research-first mindset with practical engineering leadership that accelerates AI training and inference at scale. An interesting through-line in his career is persistent involvement in community-driven conferences and open-source governance alongside industrial R&D.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (direct track), Computer Science, PhD (direct track), Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Github Skills (56)
hbase10
spark10
big-data10
kafka10
apache-druid10
apache10
analytics10
java10
olap10
sql10
high-performance10
sketch10
database10
druid10
hadoop9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Eshcar/sketches-core
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Core Sketch Library.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
sketch
Eshcar/hbase
Mar 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 318 pushes, 51 branches in 4 years 2 months
javaapache-hbaseapachehbase
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