Itamar Haber
Technology Evangelist at Redis
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolItamar Haber is a Technology Evangelist and long-time Redis expert based in Berlin, with over three decades in computing and 12 years of focused industry experience. He combines executive and hands-on engineering roles—ranging from product and customer-facing leadership to backend and DevOps work—helping bridge open-source development with commercial adoption at Redis. A prolific contributor to core Redis projects (redis, redis-py, RedisJSON, RedisAI) he has improved stability, added commands and enhanced ML inference capabilities, demonstrating deep systems and data-structure expertise. He writes, speaks and consults on data management and open-source practice, and has a track record of scaling cloud DBaaS operations and developer education. Notably, his contributions span both low-level C modules and high-level Python client features, reflecting rare fluency across the Redis stack.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Kellogg School of ManagementBA Computer Sciences, BA Computer Sciences at Hadassah Academic College
English, French, Hebrew
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
RedisJSON/RedisJSON
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
RedisJSON - a JSON data type for Redis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 189 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Itamar primarily contributed to the core functionality of the RedisJSON module. Their work included the addition of new commands, such as `JSON.MEMORY`, and the enhancement of existing commands to handle new functionalities. They also addressed memory management issues and made significant contributions to the AOF serialization process, ensuring data persistence. Furthermore, they made several improvements by fixing bugs, and refactoring code.
document-storeredisrejsonjson-datadata-type
RedisLabsModules/RedisModulesSDK
May 2016 - Nov 2018
Tools, utilities and scripts to help you write redis modules!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Itamar contributed to the redismodulessdk repository by implementing a utility function for accessing elements within nested arrays, demonstrating an understanding of data structures and array manipulation. They addressed code dependencies by incorporating necessary header files and removing redundant ones. Furthermore, the user added newlines to test outputs to enhance readability and performed code refactoring to improve code clarity and maintainability.
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