Ittai Zeidman
Figuring Out What's Next
Givatayim, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolIttai Zeidman is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12+ years of experience building scalable server-side systems, developer platforms, and AI-powered tooling. At Wix he focused on developer experience and productivity—most recently launching an AI engineering assistant adopted by hundreds across large production codebases to speed feature work, debugging, reviews, and migrations. As Backend Guild CTO he shaped backend standards and platforms that kept a large org fast and reliable, while earlier roles span healthcare, telecom, and e-commerce infrastructure. He’s an active contributor to build tooling (notably enhancements to bazelbuild/rules_scala) and combines deep hands-on systems work with a clear talent for turning complex, high-stakes technical problems into maintainable solutions. Based in Givatayim, Israel, he thrives on enabling teams to ship confidently and with joy.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Economics at Tel Aviv University
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
bazel10
build-automation10
java10
scala10
cxf9
jax-rs9
junit9
json6
rabbitmq6
erlang6
jackson6
connectivity6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/rules_scala
May 2016 - Nov 2022
Scala rules for Bazel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:163 reviews, 151 commits, 513 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ittai primarily focused on enhancing the build process and supporting the Scala language rules for Bazel. Their contributions involved implementing support for mixing Java and Scala sources, JUnit and Specs2 test integration, and integrating strict dependency checking. They also addressed build performance by optimizing deploy jar creation and migrating to java_common.compile for improved compilation.
bazelscalatestscalarulesbazel-rules
wix-incubator/rules_jvm_test_discovery
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Bazel ruleset for automatic maven like test discovery on the JVM
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 10 months
mavenrulesetbazeldiscoveryjvm
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