Summary
Gil Tal is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience designing and scaling backend systems across startups and enterprise environments. He has shipped high-throughput data collection platforms and device-backend integrations, from leading an auto-crawler service that ingests millions of items daily to building Python/Django services for a computer-vision smart cart product. Comfortable across cloud and container ecosystems (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker) and multiple datastores (MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis), he blends hands-on coding with product-driven design and mentoring. Notably, Gil has repeatedly driven operational improvements—halving build times at Amdocs and automating site discovery at Sixgill—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
English, Hebrew