Michael Spector
Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Spector is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale data platforms and distributed database systems, now based in London. A former core developer and hands-on technical lead for Azure Data Explorer, he brings deep expertise in query engines, storage systems, and performance optimization—having shipped a Rust-based engine and driven ingestion and query improvements that materially cut costs and boosted throughput. He’s repeatedly taken systems from prototype to production, from founding-engineer work at startups to leading data infrastructure and ML platforms at HERE and AppsFlyer. Known for solving petabyte-scale dataset challenges, he combines low-level database internals knowledge with pragmatic delivery, and often unblocks teams by authoring new operators and functions tailored to real customer workloads.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Sclience and Mathematics, B.Sc, Computer Sclience and Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University
English, Russian, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
36,931reputation
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148answers
57questions
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apache-spark
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Github Skills (200)
apache-spark10
autocomplete10
hadoop10
perl10
automation10
visual-studio10
cpp10
big-data10
bitset10
scheduler10
json10
data-science10
apache10
airflow10
package-manager10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-kusto-avro-conv
Jan 2020 - May 2024
Avro to JSON converter
Contributions:21 reviews, 10 PRs, 45 pushes in 4 years 3 months
avroavro-datato-jsonjson-converterkusto
spektom/dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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