Guy Khmelnitsky
Senior Software Engineer at BigPanda
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolGuy Khmelnitsky is a Staff Software Engineer based in Tel Aviv with over a decade of experience building high-scale, server-side systems and leading backend efforts at companies like BigPanda, Wix, and Yahoo. He specializes in Java/Scala ecosystems, distributed data platforms (HBase, Hadoop), Kafka, SQL, and microservice consolidation with a strong focus on reliability, scalability and TDD. At Wix he drove critical concurrent editing and document-management flows; at Yahoo he worked on large native ad-serving and big data pipelines, and at BigPanda he now shapes platform-level engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved subtitle provider integrations in the popular Bazarr project, showing a knack for pragmatic integrations with external services. Outside work he combines hardware tinkering and smart-home automation with photography, guitar and drone flying—hints of a pragmatic tinkerer who enjoys turning hobby projects into useful tools.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Economics at Tel Aviv UniversityHighschool Computers Science Electronics Physics Math English, Highschool Computers Science Electronics Physics Math English at Ort Guttman
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (5)
subliminal10
python10
api8
apim8
api-design8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
morpheus65535/bazarr
May 2019 - Oct 2021
Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr. It manages and downloads subtitles based on your requirements. You define your preferences by TV show or movie and Bazarr takes care of everything for you.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Guy primarily contributed to the `bazarr` project by implementing and fixing issues within the subtitle provider, particularly focusing on the Ktuvit provider. Their work involved adding new providers, updating existing ones (like Subscenter), and resolving login and missing subtitle problems. The user's contributions directly enhanced the functionality and stability of the subtitle download feature, crucial for the application's core purpose. These improvements involved significant code changes to manage subtitle retrieval and processing from external sources.
everythingsonarrsubliminaltakesepisodes
GuyKh/iec-custom-component
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
HomeAssistant Custom Component for IEC
Contributions:76 releases, 7 reviews, 253 PRs in 1 year
electrichacshome-assistantiec
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