Igal Klebanov
Software Engineer at Prisma
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolIgal Klebanov is a software engineer with nine years building resilient SaaS products primarily at pre-seed to post-Series B startups, currently contributing to Prisma's TypeScript-driven data platform. He thrives in small, flat teams and has repeatedly owned features end-to-end—from MVPs and event-sourced data pipelines to enterprise-facing APIs and operational tooling. A pragmatic back-end specialist, he champions type-safety and runtime validation (notably contributing to popular TypeScript OSS like Zod and Kysely, adding features such as ZodNumber.finite and MERGE support in Kysely). His experience spans cloud-native serverless stacks, data plumbing, and observability across AWS, Cloudflare Workers, Turso and more. Comfortable under pressure, he has been a core early hire multiple times, navigating product pivots and high-stakes reliability work. Based in Tel Aviv, he blends engineering craftsmanship with a pragmatic, product-minded approach to shipping robust systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems., Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems. at University of Haifa
English, Hebrew, Russian
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
type-inference10
schema-validation10
back-end-development10
validations10
typescript10
validation10
query-building10
validating10
sql10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
validate10
unit-testing9
bigint9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kysely-org/kysely
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
A type-safe typescript SQL query builder
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 481 reviews, 136 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Igal focused on enhancing the Kysely library's capabilities by adding support for the `MERGE` query, enabling more complex database operations. Their contributions included implementing new features, adding a new `using` clause and several test cases, and addressing potential issues that might arise with the new features, improving the library's functionality. The user was actively involved in enhancing Kysely's capabilities within the core query building functionality, focusing on integrating the `MERGE` query type.
browsertype-safesqlitenodejsdatabase
colinhacks/zod
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 7 commits, 20 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Igal contributed to the Zod library by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and improving the codebase. Their work included adding a `fatal` property to `ZodIssue`, adding `.finite()` to `ZodNumber`, and fixing a bug related to object partials and inference. The user also added test cases for the `coerce` functionality, improved the `bigint` functionality by implementing various checks and getters, and implemented the `.includes()` method for ZodString.
type-safetyzodvalidateruntime-validationvalidation
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