Itay Donanhirsh
Founder & CTO at AutoKitteh
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolItay Donanhirsh is a founder and CTO with 11 years of professional software experience and a deep background in distributed and embedded systems. He has led engineering efforts at startups and tech companies—from senior roles at Checkr, Lyft, Twitter and Google to founding SoftKitteh LLC and AutoKitteh—bridging low-level embedded C/C++ work with modern cloud-scale architectures. His early career in defense and embedded video systems gave him strong real-time, multithreading and systems design instincts that inform his approach to scalable product engineering today. Based in Walnut Creek, CA, he combines hands-on implementation skills with a penchant for learning new domains, often translating complex protocols and hardware interfaces into robust software. Colleagues would note his knack for quickly understanding core issues and turning them into pragmatic, production-ready designs.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Physics & Biology, BSc, Physics & Biology at Tel Aviv UniversityProgramming, Programming at MAMRAM/BASMACH
Github Skills (99)
python10
proxy10
accelerator10
automation10
cloud-native10
starlark10
sdk10
golang10
high-performance10
kubernetes10
slack-api10
aws-lambda10
distributed-systems10
workflow-engine10
workflow-automation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
autokitteh/autokitteh
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Durable workflow automation in just a few lines of code
Contributions:72 releases, 1584 reviews, 831 PRs in 1 year 1 month
automationdistributed-systemsdurable-executiondurable-functionsgolang
cluttercode/clutter
Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 release, 59 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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