Idan Zalzberg
Chief Technology Officer at Agoda
Thailand
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Top SchoolIdan Zalzberg is a senior technology leader and current CTO at Agoda with 13 years of industry experience and a background that spans data architecture, R&D leadership, and product-focused engineering. He rose through successive leadership roles at Agoda—from Director of Data Architecture to Chief Data Officer—combining hands-on engineering instincts with strategic oversight of large-scale data platforms and analytics. A physicist by training (BSc and MSc), Idan favors digging "into the bits and bytes" to produce elegantly designed, high-performance systems rather than just "working" solutions. He co-founded Qlika and has a streak of practical open-source contribution, notably improving django-taggit's performance by adding prefetch_related support. Based in Thailand, he hires and mentors across the full modern data stack (Big Data, OLTP, BI) and enjoys recruiting talent for challenging engineering and management roles. Known for balancing perfectionism with delivery, he continually pushes teams to innovate and build things that haven't existed before.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Physics, MSc Physics at Tel Aviv UniversityBSc Physics And Mathematics (Talpiot), BSc Physics And Mathematics (Talpiot) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
python10
django10
testing10
performance-optimization9
compatibility9
memory-leaks6
windbg6
ironpython6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-taggit
Jul 2013 - Nov 2013
Simple tagging for django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Idan primarily contributed to the `django-taggit` project by adding support for Django's `prefetch_related` functionality. This involved modifications to the `taggit/managers.py` and `tests/tests.py` files to ensure compatibility and enhance performance. They also addressed Python 2.6 and Python 3.2 compatibility issues within the testing framework and made minor code style improvements. These changes focused on adapting the library to work with the latest versions of Django and Python.
pythondjangodjango-blogdjango-projecttagging
idanz/spark
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Mirror of Apache Spark
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 10 months
emrspark-mlapachebig-dataspark
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