Gili Tzabari
Technical Lead at Stealth Startup
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolGili Tzabari is a hands-on technical lead and CTO with over a decade of professional experience and a 20+ year engineering mindset, now based in Montreal and currently modernizing Amazon’s product catalog. He combines deep systems and low-latency expertise—from building microsecond financial exchanges and low-latency REST protocols to architecting high-throughput blockchain indexers—with practical startup leadership as CTO and team lead across multiple ventures. He designed a Java-based infrastructure-as-code framework that delivers declarative outcomes via versioned imperative scripts, reducing YAML friction and improving developer onboarding. An active backend contributor to the well-known Eclipse Jetty project, he improves HTTP server/client robustness and proxy configurations, reflecting his attention to protocol-level detail. Colleague-focused and pragmatic, he translates ambitious product goals into auditable, high-performance systems that scale.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng Software Engineering, B. Eng Software Engineering at Concordia UniversityDEC Pure and Applied Sciences, DEC Pure and Applied Sciences at Vanier CollegeHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Herzliah St. Laurent
English, Hebrew, French
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Github Skills (46)
caching10
flyway10
exceptions10
http10
java10
servlet10
javas10
http-server10
http-client10
variadic-functions10
browser-cache10
maven10
generics10
eclipse10
jetty10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
jetty/jetty.project
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
Eclipse Jetty® - Web Container & Clients - supports HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.0, websocket, servlets, and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gili primarily focused on enhancing the Jetty project's server-side functionalities. Their contributions include adding Javadoc documentation for better code understanding, updating the `HttpConfiguration` class by adding and modifying headers and incorporating links to the HTTP/1.1 standard. They also worked on improving the HttpClient, including updating proxy configurations and incorporating thread-safe modification methods, and fixing checkstyle errors. The user updated multiple proxy configuration files to align them with the latest improvements.
j2eeleiningenponylanghttp2-pushmhealth
cowwoc/pouch
Jan 2014 - Jul 2022
Inversion of Control that's designed for ease of use and debugging
Contributions:11 releases, 1 review, 113 commits in 8 years 6 months
service-locatorlocatorjava-librarydesign-patterndependency-injection
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