Itay Bittan
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolItay Bittan is a senior, hands-on software engineer and engineering leader with 10+ years building cloud-native, scalable backend systems and leading teams from startup to enterprise. He has deep expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, observability, and has driven major migrations and optimizations that cut costs and improved latency at scale. At Dynamic Yield he led core teams and shipped an AI-powered multimodal product search using Elasticsearch, vector search, LLMs and locally deployed models, and also built internal experimentation platforms to accelerate research-to-production. He pairs production ownership and incident leadership with mentoring and hiring experience, briefly serving as interim Director to scale processes and quality across multiple teams. An active contributor to Apache Airflow documentation, he brings an engineer’s attention to clarity and reproducibility in complex systems. Based in Israel and now at AI21 Labs, he thrives on turning novel research into reliable, production-grade products.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Gymnasia HaRealitB.Sc., Software Engineering, B.Sc., Software Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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310answers
82questions
docker-compose
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docker
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flask
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amazon-s3
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amazon-web-services
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Github Skills (24)
apache-airflow10
celery10
documentation10
docker-compose9
dockers9
python9
amazon-web-services9
docker9
amazon-s39
merge9
flask9
dockerfile6
bash6
jquery6
docker-buildkit6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Nov 2019 - Mar 2023
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 reviews, 12 PRs, 18 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Itay primarily contributed to the documentation of the Apache Airflow project. Their work includes fixing example code, updating Airflow version references in recipes, adding examples for provider packages and database setup, and updating links. The contributions focus on improving documentation clarity, accuracy, and completeness across various sections, including Docker-stack related documentation, and how-to guides.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
itayB/spark-infra
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
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