Iftah Zaken
Senior Backend Engineer at Gloat
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolIftah Zaken is a Senior Backend Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems across startups and major cloud providers, currently contributing at Gloat from Tel-Aviv. His background includes hands-on roles at AWS and RavenDB, reflecting deep expertise in distributed systems, databases, and high-throughput services. He has moved between product-focused startups and platform-scale engineering, bringing pragmatic design and operational awareness to production services. Educated in software engineering and applied mathematics, he combines analytical rigor with practical engineering judgment. Colleagues rely on him for stabilizing core services and accelerating delivery in fast-paced teams. Outside typical backend work he has experience spanning both research-oriented and enterprise environments, giving him a versatile perspective on trade-offs between innovation and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Sciences (B.Sc.) Software Engineering & Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Sciences (B.Sc.) Software Engineering & Applied Mathematics at Braude Academic CollegeStudent Exchange Computer Science, Student Exchange Computer Science at University of RochesterInternational School of Brussels
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (61)
foundationdb10
vector-search10
ravendb10
search-engine10
nosql10
time-series10
dotnet10
indexing10
sharding10
arangodb10
iot10
document-database10
embeddable10
quartz-net10
spatial10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iftahbe/docs
Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
Documenation book for RavenDB
Contributions:144 pushes, 77 branches in 3 years 10 months
ravendbdatabasedocumenation
iftahbe/ravendb
Apr 2016 - Feb 2021
A linq enabled document database for .NET
Contributions:1043 pushes, 390 branches in 4 years 11 months
dotnetdotnet-libraryquery-languagecsharpdatabase
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