Guy Cohen is a seasoned data architect and Head of Big Data with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale analytics platforms. Based in Raanana, Israel, he leads Gett鈥檚 Big Data efforts, building a next-generation Data Lake and DWH using Lambda architecture with Trino, Spark, Kinesis, S3 and Python to unify heterogeneous sources like MySQL, Mongo and S3. A long-time Oracle DBA and performance-tuning specialist, he brings deep expertise in VLDB, RAC and SQL optimization married to modern streaming and ETL practices. He is an active contributor to the well-known Trino project, improving its PostgreSQL connector and type handling鈥攁n indicator of both system-level depth and open-source engagement. His background spans telecom and media enterprises and even military programming training at Mamram, giving him a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to data platform engineering.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
practical engineer, programmer and software developer, practical engineer, programmer and software developer at MAMRAM
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:54 reviews, 40 PRs, 314 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Guy primarily contributed to the Trino query engine's PostgreSQL connector, implementing features and addressing issues related to data type mapping. Their work included mapping PostgreSQL JSON types to Trino JSON, fixing pushdown filters for PostgreSQL enum types, and adding support for array types of timestamps. They also addressed a bug with distinct/groupby on UUID, and added features related to handling decimals. Furthermore, the user made changes to system metadata.
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
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Guy Cohen - Head Of Big Data Acting As Data Architect