Idan Sheinberg is a pragmatic VP R&D and seasoned engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience bootstrapping high-performance distributed systems and developer platforms. He excels at turning borderline-intractable problems into shipping products, leveraging deep expertise in Java, Kotlin and Python across cloud, GIS, real-time trading and media pipelines. Idan has a track record of founding core stacks from scratch—low-latency trading infra, scale-out video rendering reduced from 60s to 3s, and a multi-language gRPC/mono-repo for cross-platform APIs—and routinely pairs architecture work with coding and mentoring. He is an active open-source maintainer (recently on sqlacodegen and Dremio GIS extensions) and a prolific contributor to projects like Chronicle Queue, FlatBuffers and Jaeger, reflecting a preference for learning by reading and improving others’ code. Based in Israel, he combines rapid learning and a product-focused mindset to deliver maximal impact in short timeframes while keeping an eye on operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Contributions:9 releases, 163 commits, 52 PRs in 4 years 8 months
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