Omer Gertel
Software Engineer at Google
Israel
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Top SchoolOmer Gertel is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable systems, currently at Google after leading architecture and delivery for billing and payments at WeWork where his team scaled from 5 to nearly 100 and billed billions annually. A Talpiot graduate with a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA, he blends algorithmic research experience from an elite IDF intelligence unit with hands-on product engineering and R&D leadership. He co-founded OffScale (a GitHub-for-databases startup) and has deep expertise in data mining, text analysis, databases, and backend stacks including Java, .NET, Django, SQL, Oracle, and MySQL. An active contributor to open source database tooling, he added core features and MongoDB-compatible update semantics to the well-known mongomock project, improving test fidelity for Python projects. Known for translating complex algorithmic problems into production-ready systems, he excels at bridging research, engineering, and product constraints in high-stakes environments. Based in Israel, he brings a rare combination of elite research pedigree, startup founder grit, and enterprise-scale systems design.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Marketing, MBA, Marketing at Tel Aviv UniversityBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The Hebrew University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (15)
database10
database-management10
databases10
database-administration10
mongodb10
python10
back-end-development10
mocking10
mongodb-database10
testing10
django6
django-models6
asp-net6
database-design6
mysql6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mongomock/mongomock
Aug 2012 - Oct 2012
Small library for mocking pymongo collection objects for testing purposes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:11 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Omer primarily contributed to the core logic and functionality of the `mongomock` library. Their work involved implementing features like `find_and_modify`, as well as adding support for `$set`, `$inc`, `$addToSet`, and `$pull` operations within the update functionality. The commits also include fixes to address incompatibilities with MongoDB and Python 3.2 and added features like `skip` and `limit`.
pythontestingmockingpymongomock
omergertel/pyformance
Aug 2012 - Dec 2018
Performance metrics, based on Coda Hale's Yammer metrics
Contributions:1 release, 69 commits, 34 PRs in 6 years 5 months
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