Ido Kessler
Coach at Israeli Olympiad in informatics
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolIdo Kessler is a software engineer and coach with nine years of experience, currently mentoring competitive programmers at the Israeli Olympiad in Informatics. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and a multidisciplinary bachelor's combining CS with Psychology & Neuroscience, reflecting a blend of technical rigor and cognitive insight. Ido has interned at Microsoft’s Advanced Technology Lab and contributes to open-source tooling—most notably improving fastai’s fastcore with dependency-resolution logic and robust dataframe comparisons. Now focused on coaching and sharpening algorithmic skills through competitive programming and Project Euler, he brings both deep CS foundations and practical engineering experience to training the next generation.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, (CS: 97), Master's degree, Computer Science, (CS: 97) at Tel Aviv University
Github Skills (7)
functional-programming10
python10
testing9
data-structure9
data-structures9
numpy8
pandas7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AnswerDotAI/fastcore
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Python supercharged for the fastai library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ido primarily contributed to improving the `fastcore` library, fixing typos and logical errors within the code. They implemented the `sorted_topologically` function, a crucial component for dependency resolution. Furthermore, the user refactored the code and enhanced the comparison of pandas dataframes, ensuring robustness in test scenarios.
dispatchloopspythonfunctional-programmingdocumentation-generator
jonathan6655321/ChessProject
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:56 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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