Liran Funaro
Research Scientist at IBM
Haifa District, Israel
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Top SchoolLiran Funaro is a research scientist with 14 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, resource allocation and cloud economics, currently on IBM’s Blockchain Research team after a research role at Yahoo. He holds a PhD from Technion where he developed novel cache and multi-resource auction algorithms and built practical evaluation frameworks that bridge academic insight and production constraints. Liran has a strong track record of turning theoretical ideas into deployed systems—designing, implementing and operating solutions that expose real bottlenecks and monetize project benefits. He’s contributed to industry-academic programs and taught parallel and distributed programming, reflecting both mentorship and broad technical stewardship. Based in Haifa, he combines low-level systems expertise (embedded/RT and automation tools) with applied research in cloud incentives and memory-elastic applications.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (direct track), Computer Science, 95, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (direct track), Computer Science, 95 at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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71answers
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Github Skills (93)
apache-druid10
hadoop10
olap10
big-data10
sql10
high-performance10
database10
druid10
traversal10
concurrent10
spark10
kafka10
apache10
analytics10
java10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
236371/ewolf-webgui
Jun 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:90 commits in 4 months
liran-funaro/opensubtitles-totem-plugin
Oct 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:27 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 4 months
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