Ofek Shenawa
Software Engineer at Redis
North District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOfek Shenawa is a software engineer with four years of experience building high-performance backend systems, currently contributing to Redis after progressing from automation and performance engineering roles within the company. He brings hands-on expertise in Python and Go, notably adding Redis Gears, Timeseries, and Monitor command support to the go-redis client and driving multiple client upgrades and refactors. His background in Israeli Military Intelligence includes leading awarded automation projects for data gathering and fault detection, earning a Department Excellence in Service award. Comfortable across testing, CI/CD, profiling and benchmarking, he combines operational rigor with open-source contribution experience to improve reliability and usability in distributed data systems.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ben gurion school
Github Skills (6)
go10
redis10
command-line10
unit-testing9
time-series8
json7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
redis/go-redis
Apr 2023 - Jul 2026
Redis Go client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 130 reviews, 219 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ofek implemented support for Redis Gears, adding new commands and tests for it within the go-redis client. This involved creating new files for gears commands, as well as modifying existing files for integration. The user also upgraded the go-redis client to version 9.1.0, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.3.0, 9.3.1, 9.4.0, 9.4.1, 9.5.0 and 9.5.1 and refactored probabilistic and json commands for improved usability. Furthermore, they added features like support for the "BITFIELD_RO" command and also introduced support for Redis Timeseries commands and tests. They contributed to the implementation of the Monitor command and optimized the connection process.
goredisgolangredis-clientredis-cluster
ofekshenawa/go-redis
Aug 2023 - Nov 2025
Redis Go client
Contributions:9 PRs, 39 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 3 months
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