Lev Zakharov
Senior Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
Israel
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Top SchoolLev Zakharov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Israel with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems, currently focused on DevOps at Dell Technologies. He blends strong Python and Kubernetes expertise with backend systems work in Go, contributing notable fixes and features to the popular pgx PostgreSQL driver such as concurrency bug fixes and improved type mapping. His background spans QA and automation roles at Intel and Valens, giving him a pragmatic, test-first approach to reliability and deployment automation. Comfortable across the stack, he has steered transitions from QA into software quality and DevOps, consistently improving scalability and observability of production services. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative engineer who pairs steady hands-on execution with a habit of finding subtle bugs and simplifying complex integrations.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science at Netanya Academic CollegePractical Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Practical Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at School of Practical Engineering at the Technion
English, Hebrew, Russian
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Github Skills (13)
database-driver10
go10
postgresql10
pgx10
concurrency9
python9
testing8
pandas6
hashcode6
plot6
dataframe6
matplotlib6
django6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jackc/pgx
Oct 2019 - Oct 2023
PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Lev primarily focused on enhancing the `pgx` Go driver and toolkit for PostgreSQL. Their contributions include supporting different boolean string representations within the `pgtype` package. They also added a singleton `pgtype.Map` for default type mappings and fixed a concurrency bug. Furthermore, the user added functionality for constructing a *sql.DB from a *pgxpool.Pool and refactored the connection implementation.
golangpostgresql-drivergopostgrespostgresql
lzakharov/csv2md
Feb 2018 - Feb 2020
Command line tool for converting CSV files into Markdown tables.
Contributions:6 releases, 3 reviews, 53 commits in 2 years
command-line-toolcsvmarkdown-tablescsv-filesconverting
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