Oz Katz
Co Founder And Chief Technology Officer at lakeFS
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, United States
Summary
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RockstarOz Katz is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of industry experience building large-scale distributed systems, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Treeverse, the team behind lakeFS. He combines hands-on backend engineering—evident from his contributions to lakeFS’s core protobuf models, database schemas and SQL queries—with strategic R&D leadership from roles at SimilarWeb and prior startups he co-founded. A veteran of Israel’s elite 8200 unit, Oz has deep expertise in web architecture, data versioning, and production engineering for telecom and web-scale applications. Based in Tel Aviv, he blends product-minded engineering with a practical focus on data reliability and developer workflows, and has helped bring Git-like version control to data lakes through an active open-source project.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (16)
data-modeling10
go10
sql10
protobuffer10
database-design10
protobuf10
java9
eclipse9
ajax6
css6
character-encoding6
php6
javascript6
python6
django6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
treeverse/lakeFS
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
lakeFS - Data version control for your data lake | Git for data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 702 reviews, 718 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Oz's commits show a focus on developing core database schemas and models for a data version control system, specifically related to the development of protobuf model specifications and related API calls. These commits suggest a backend engineering role, working with data models and internal APIs. The work includes the creation of database tables and queries using SQL.
pythonhadoop-filesystemdatadata-streamdata-lake
similarweb/gru
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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