Raz Luvaton
Apache DataFusion Committer
Beer Yaakov, Center District, Israel
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Top SchoolRaz Luvaton is a versatile full-stack engineer with a decade of experience building reliable distributed systems, real-time applications, and developer tooling. As an Apache DataFusion committer and Node.js core collaborator, he contributes at the intersection of high-performance data processing (Apache DataFusion, arrow-rs) and runtime-level improvements (Node.js streams). He’s delivered end-to-end systems in the Israeli Air Force and led engineering teams at Bringg, while also hardening message queues, testing best practices, and CI/CD workflows across open-source projects. Comfortable in Node.js, TypeScript, Rust and low-level engineering, Raz pairs pragmatic product delivery with careful performance and edge-case handling—evident in his work adding SQL functions that correctly handle complex types and nulls. Based in Beer Yaakov, Israel, he’s equally at home optimizing Rust crates as he is improving observability and fault tolerance in Node ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Practical Software Engineer, Practical Software Engineer at Multidisciplinary Technological College
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (57)
database10
github-ci10
javascript10
deno10
mobx10
testing10
databases10
guideline10
typescript10
bash10
logger10
arrow-keys10
message-queue10
mongodb-database10
fusion10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
:white_check_mark: The Node.js best practices list (July 2024)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:141 reviews, 183 commits, 129 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Raz primarily focused on enhancing the repository's build and deployment processes by implementing and refining GitHub Actions. Their contributions involved creating a script to update a "last updated" badge in the README.md file and integrating it into a workflow. This work included fixing bugs, refactoring the script, and converting existing processes to leverage GitHub Actions more effectively. The user also corrected an error related to the closing of the img tag.
jestexpressjavasciptwhitemark
eveningkid/denodb
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB ORM for Deno
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 28 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Raz primarily focused on optimizing the project's code, specifically by removing redundant spread operations in the MongoDB connector and in database-related files. They updated the project's syntax and style to conform to the project's conventions, and refactored code to remove explicit database references. Their contributions involved improvements in the MongoDB connector implementation as well as other core database-related functionalities.
mongodb-ormdeno-deploymysqlmongosql
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