Miki Tebeka
CEO at GopherCon Israel
Israel
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Top SchoolMiki Tebeka is a hands-on software engineer and CEO with 16+ years building data pipelines, teaching practical workshops, and consulting on large-scale ETL and Big Data systems. He specializes in Python, Scientific Python and Go, and has deep experience across information retrieval, concurrency, and web APIs, often preferring pragmatic tools over Java/C++. An active open-source contributor, Miki has improved testing and tooling in high-profile projects like Selenium and fastavro and authored Go and Python libraries (including a Selenium WebDriver client for Go). He combines classroom instruction (Ardan Labs, LinkedIn Learning) with real-world system migrations and performance work for companies handling hundreds of millions of users. Known for organizing community events (GopherCon Israel, PyCon Israel) and editing technical puzzles, he blends technical leadership with a taste for making complex concepts approachable.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Natural Language Processing, M.Sc. Natural Language Processing at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevHigh School Diploma Mathematics & Physics, High School Diploma Mathematics & Physics at Ben-Tzvi High School, Kiriat Ono
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
python10
testing10
javas10
file-processing10
rest-api10
avro10
webdriver10
fmt10
dockers10
clojure10
math-functions10
api10
test-automation10
api-rest10
apidoc10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
tebeka/selenium
Aug 2011 - Dec 2016
Selenium/Webdriver client for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:392 commits, 17 PRs, 44 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Miki contributed to the development of a Selenium client for Go, implementing core functionality for interacting with WebDriver. Their work involved defining commands, request methods, and handling responses from the Selenium server. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on the low-level details of interacting with a remote WebDriver instance, defining API calls and creating data structures for the Selenium API.
goseleniumwebdriver
fastavro/fastavro
Jul 2011 - Jan 2018
Fast Avro for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:847 commits, 43 PRs, 135 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Miki's contributions primarily focused on fastavro, a Python library for reading and writing Apache Avro files. The commits involved refactoring, improving performance and correctness. Specifically, the user addressed issues related to handling booleans, writing to file objects, and ensuring correct codec handling for different file formats.
avropython
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