Igal Sapir
Software Architect System Architect at The Apache Software Foundation
United States
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Top SchoolIgal Sapir is a veteran software and systems architect with nearly three decades of experience building high-performance, secure web and application servers that scale to millions of users. He combines low-level expertise—from C/C++ and Java internals to network-level optimizations—with modern stacks like Go, Python, Kubernetes and full-stack JavaScript/CSS. A long-standing open source maintainer and contributor, he’s a Tomcat PMC/security team member and core developer on the Lucee CFML server, where his Java fixes and tooling improvements have strengthened cross-platform stability and performance. He leads architecture and tech teams at 21 Solutions and DistroKid, consults on large-scale hosting (including NASA JPL), and organizes the Los Angeles Postgres community. Known for shipping pragmatic, auditable systems, he also brings unusual breadth from early assembler work through contemporary cloud-native design.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics and Computer Engineering, Electronics and Computer Engineering at Holtz Aviation College
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Github Skills (53)
debug10
postgresql10
multiplatform10
cfml10
cross-platform10
java10
tomcat10
javas10
sql10
coldfusion10
scripting9
testing9
unix9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
lucee/Lucee
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
Lucee is a high-performance, open-source CFML server written in Java. Supporting JDBC, Caching, Parallelism, HTTP, ORM, REST, S3 and dynamic Java integration, Lucee is great for developers aiming to build fast, scalable applications, delivering faster startup, rapid compilation and better runtime performance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 477 commits, 91 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Igal primarily contributed to the Lucee CFML server, focusing on implementing bug fixes and enhancements related to various core functionalities. Their commits involved addressing issues within the core engine, correcting test cases for Windows environments, and ensuring cross-platform compatibility, as well as adding functionality to disable the controller and create URL-safe Base64 encoding. They demonstrate strong skills in Java, addressing problems in the core codebase.
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apache/tomcat
Jul 2018 - Apr 2022
Apache Tomcat
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 95 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Igal primarily contributed to the `apache/tomcat` repository by modifying shell scripts and Java code related to the `makebase` utility. These changes involved creating and updating scripts to set up the `CATALINA_BASE` directory structure. Furthermore, the user implemented modifications to the Java code, adding setter methods and handling the default web.xml settings for the Tomcat server. These contributions aimed at improving the configuration and functionality of the Tomcat server.
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