Israel Fruchter
Automation Team Leader
Israel
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Top SchoolIsrael Fruchter is an Automation Team Leader with 15 years of experience designing and shipping robust test and build automation for distributed systems, currently leading automation at ScyllaDB. He excels at improving CI/CD, Docker-based deployments and runtime reliability—demonstrated by contributions that hardened ScyllaDB’s docker-entrypoint signal handling and repackaged cqlsh for architecture-specific RPMs. A longtime testing engineer from Cisco, he moved test suites into Python and helped integrate complex simulators and stability/load testing into global CI pipelines. Based in Israel and completing a B.Sc. in Computer Science, he blends pragmatic DevOps skills with deep test engineering expertise and a knack for time-saving tooling.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc, Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
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Github Skills (21)
docker10
python10
dockers10
cicd10
c-language9
scylla9
databases9
database9
cprogramming-language9
debian-packaging8
rpm8
package8
packager8
bash8
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
scylladb/scylladb
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
NoSQL data store using the Seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:105 reviews, 9 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Israel's contributions primarily focus on improving the ScyllaDB's build and deployment processes, particularly within the Docker environment. They fixed signal handling in `docker-entrypoint.py` to ensure graceful shutdowns. They also updated dependencies for Python and repackaged the cqlsh tool, integrating it as a submodule and modifying packaging for architecture-specific RPMs. Furthermore, they introduced changes related to cqlsh configuration and file locations in the Docker setup.
amazon-dynamodbcassandranosqlseastarc-plus-plus
fruch/scylla-cluster-tests
Feb 2019 - Jul 2026
Tests for Scylla Clusters
Contributions:13 PRs, 3255 pushes, 1532 branches in 7 years 6 months
clusterstestingscylla
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