Jonathan Shifman
Quantitative Developer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Shifman is a quantitative developer based in New York with eight years of experience building high-performance algorithmic and backend systems. He has a strong track record at Millennium and prior roles in the Israeli Air Force where he moved from backend development to algorithm engineering, reflecting both production-grade engineering and applied research strengths. Jonathan focuses on scalable architectures, performance optimization, and clean, maintainable code, bringing a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to low-latency problems. Trained in computer software engineering at Technion, he combines formal engineering foundations with hands-on experience deploying mission-critical systems. Beyond day-to-day work he is passionate about continual learning and bridging scientific thinking with pragmatic software delivery.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (13)
java8
grpc7
proto7
bazel-rules7
rpc7
grpc-java6
microservices6
protobuf6
netty5
multiplayer4
scala3
akka3
infrastructure2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JonathanShifman/shithead-tournament
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:81 commits, 4 PRs, 52 pushes in 8 months
infrastructureshitheadscalacard-gameakka
JonathanShifman/ere
Feb 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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