Na'aman Hirschfeld
Founder at Armis
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNa'aman Hirschfeld is a Berlin-based founder and backend engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems and developer tooling. He blends humanities-trained critical thinking with hands-on expertise in Python, Kubernetes, and API frameworks, having led architecture and R&D teams as well as multiple startups. Na'aman is an active open-source contributor—improving type stubs for Django REST Framework and contributing core features to the Litestar API framework—demonstrating a focus on type safety and production-ready APIs. He has repeatedly taken small teams from legacy migrations to scalable platforms across fintech, streaming, and AI infrastructure, and he enjoys freelance work on high-end, impactful projects. An unexpected thread through his career is a background in culinary and academic editing, which shaped his attention to craft, process design, and cross-cultural collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Cultural Studies, Master of Arts - MA Cultural Studies at The Hebrew University of JerusalemMERN stack bootcamp, MERN stack bootcamp at IronhackDoctoral Candidate Cultural Studies, Doctoral Candidate Cultural Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hebrew, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
data-generation10
python10
apidoc10
django10
testing10
mypy10
http10
django-rest10
pep10
typehinting10
api10
django-rest-framework10
error-handling10
type-checking10
pydantic10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
litestar-org/polyfactory
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Simple and powerful factories for mock data generation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 releases, 139 reviews, 104 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Na'aman contributed to the `litestar-org/polyfactory` repository, which focuses on mock data generation. Their commits primarily involved refactoring and expanding functionality related to the pydantic_factories library, a core component of the project. This included adding support for new features like handling naive classes and discriminated unions, as well as fixing bugs and improving existing features. The user also addressed testing flakiness and improved overall code quality.
pythongenerationfactorydataclassespydantic
litestar-org/litestar
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Production-ready, Light, Flexible and Extensible ASGI API framework | Effortlessly Build Performant APIs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 releases, 1206 reviews, 619 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Na'aman primarily contributed to the development of the Litestar API framework's core functionalities, focusing on exception handling, and modifying the structure of route handlers. The user also made updates to support HTTP connection and fix various issues including the integration of multipart form data and improving the tests. Furthermore, the user implemented the option to control OpenAPI schema by alias, including the generation of schema for Annotated types.
api-clientapiasgipythonredoc
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