Israel Lacerra is a partner software developer with 15 years of experience designing and delivering backend systems for financial and energy markets, currently building Spring Boot (Kotlin/Java) and Python microservices for energy trading. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science from USP and combines hands-on implementation with architectural leadership, having managed development, operations and multi-team support functions. Israel has deep Java EE and cloud experience (AWS EC2/RDS) and a strong track record in database-backed, distributed systems and market-risk applications (VaR, Monte Carlo). An active contributor to the Infinispan project, he has improved clustered query capabilities and adapted core query components to newer Lucene versions—showing expertise in scalable NoSQL/data-grid internals beyond typical application work. Based in Greater São Paulo, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic product delivery across backoffice, middleoffice and trading domains.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Infinispan is an open source data grid platform and highly scalable NoSQL cloud data store.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Israel's contributions focus on implementing and adapting the query functionality within the Infinispan data grid. They've modified core classes related to query processing, specifically adapting to new Lucene versions. These changes involve the creation of eager iterators, modifications to clustered query implementations, and the implementation of the `getResultSize()` method. Further work includes adjustments to clustered query invokers and related tests, indicating a focus on improving and maintaining the distributed query capabilities of Infinispan.
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