Shachar Hurvitz
Senior Software Engineer - Mobility at AutoNation
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShachar Hurvitz is a Senior Software Engineer with over six years of focused experience building RESTful APIs and cloud-native services, currently driving mobility initiatives in the New York City metro area. He has led platform and hosting efforts at Goldman Sachs and was a lead engineer on Amazon Athena’s Federated Query service, contributing upstream fixes and enhancements to a widely used open-source SDK. Skilled in backend systems, databases and integration testing, he has a track record of resolving production incidents, mentoring engineers, and shipping deterministic, robust data connectors (notably improving PostgreSQL JDBC behavior and array support for Athena). His career spans high-scale enterprises including AWS, Ericsson and AutoNation, combining deep technical craftsmanship with operational ownership. A Cum Laude computer science graduate, Shachar brings a pragmatic focus on data correctness and reproducible behavior that often surfaces in subtle fixes and tooling improvements.
6 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Graduated Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Graduated Cum Laude at Kean University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (10)
amazon-athena10
javas10
postgresql10
athena10
sql10
jdbc10
java10
data-structure9
data-structures9
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-athena-query-federation
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
The Amazon Athena Query Federation SDK allows you to customize Amazon Athena with your own data sources and code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:2 releases, 111 reviews, 34 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Shachar primarily focused on enhancing the Amazon Athena Query Federation SDK, specifically addressing database-related functionalities. Their contributions included making schema builder column ordering deterministic, fixing tests related to consistent column ordering, and implementing array data type support for the PostGreSQL JDBC connector. Furthermore, the user worked on fixing data conversion issues and predicate processing related to the DATEDAY type within the PostGreSQL connector. They also contributed to the integration tests by adding DynamoDB and JDBC tests.
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shurvitz/aws-athena-query-federation
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
The Amazon Athena Query Federation SDK allows you to customize Amazon Athena with your own data sources and code.
Contributions:22 PRs, 328 pushes, 116 branches in 1 year 5 months
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