Summary
Ifat Afek is a Senior Software Engineer with 25+ years of backend and systems experience, currently focusing on stream processing at Gong after leading streaming use cases with Beam, Flink and Dataflow at Nokia. She has end-to-end product development expertise from architecture to production monitoring, with a strong track record building high-scale microservices and data pipelines using Java, Python, Kafka and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP). A proven open source leader and conference speaker, she drove the OpenStack Vitrage project and delivered 10+ OpenStack presentations, blending community stewardship with product impact. Quick to adopt new technologies, she pairs analytical problem-solving with hands-on implementation and operational rigor. Based in Israel, she holds a cum laude B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and brings both deep legacy systems experience and modern cloud-native practice to complex distributed challenges.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Math and Computer Science cum laude, B.Sc. Math and Computer Science cum laude at Tel Aviv University