Golan Parashi
Backend Staff Engineer At Wix Media Platform ( DevOps)
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolGolan Parashi is a Backend Staff Engineer and DevOps practitioner with over 13 years at Wix Media, where he architected and shipped highly scalable distributed services for storing, organizing, and serving images, video, audio and files for millions of users. He combines end-to-end product ownership—from design and coding to deployment and post-production monitoring—with deep Kubernetes and Terraform expertise across GCP and AWS, and has led multi-team efforts and CI/CD initiatives. Previously he accumulated a decade of experience spanning real-time embedded systems, networking protocols and user-facing applications, giving him a rare breadth between low-level systems and cloud-native services. An active contributor to image-processing tooling, he improved color management and conversion logic in the govips Go library, demonstrating practical open-source impact on media pipelines. Colleagues know him as a resilient, resourceful mentor who elevates engineering standards through training and hands-on design guidance.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Business Administration and Management General, Master's degree Business Administration and Management General at The College of Management Academic StudiesMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Reichman UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Github Skills (6)
image-conversion10
go10
color-management10
image-processing10
libvips10
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
davidbyttow/govips
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
A lightning fast image processing and resizing library for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Golan primarily contributed to the `govips` repository by adding and modifying ICC (International Color Consortium) profiles, focusing on color management within the image processing library. They introduced micro ICC profiles for sRGB and gray color spaces, enabling more efficient color transformations. Further contributions involved fixing alpha-premultiplication issues and making changes to the image casting and conversion logic. Additionally, the user updated the test infrastructure and HTML files, which helped to evaluate the image processing library.
imagemagickjpegresizingtiffimage
wix-incubator/wixmedia-python
Oct 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:124 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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