Harel Shein
Senior Engineering Manager at OpenLineage
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHarel Shein is a Senior Engineering Manager based in New York with 11 years of experience leading data and platform engineering teams across startups and fast-growing companies. He has progressed from hands-on software development and bioinformatics research to founding a startup and directing engineering organizations at Astronomer and WeWork, now managing teams at Datadog. Harel blends deep technical roots (M.Sc. in Computer Science and Computational Biology) with product-minded leadership, specializing in data platforms, observability, and open standards—he is an active TSC member and committer on OpenLineage. Known for scaling teams and systems during high-growth phases, he brings an architect’s attention to reliability and a researcher’s habit of probing complex datasets. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves between strategy and implementation, making trade-offs explicit while mentoring engineers to own end-to-end outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science and Computational Biology, M.Sc. Computer Science and Computational Biology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew, English, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (69)
python10
distributed-tracing10
metadata10
data-management10
data-lineage10
automation10
scheduler10
ckan10
cql10
aggregate10
bytebuddy10
java10
apm10
metadata-management10
data-governance10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
harels/OpenLineage
Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
An Open Standard for lineage metadata collection
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 8 branches in 10 months
data-analyticsdata-managementlineagedata-warehousemetadata
harels/marquez
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
A metadata service for data abstraction, lineage and event-based triggers
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
metadata-servicedata-managementlineagedata-lineagemetadata
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