Shahar Harari is a software developer with a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining robust systems, currently contributing at SAP from a foundation in network and systems administration. He brings a pragmatic blend of backend and front-end sensibilities—evidenced by open-source front-end work on the widely used Eclipse Theia IDE where he improved webview focus, menu behavior, and UI overlays to enhance developer experience. His career began in infrastructure and operations roles (IDF, Ness Technologies, TeleMessage), which gives him strong troubleshooting instincts and a systems-level view when designing software. Comfortable across the stack, Shahar pairs production-focused engineering with a user-centric approach to UI details that often go unnoticed until they break. Based in Israel and educated in computer software engineering at Afeka College, he is the kind of engineer who bridges operational resilience and polished developer tools.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, 87, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, 87 at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering
Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Shahar primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of webviews within the Eclipse Theia IDE framework. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to focus management, menu behavior, and event handling within webviews. The user also improved the UI by preventing a transparent overlay from appearing in specific scenarios. This work is directly related to improving the user experience within the Theia environment.
Server side wrapper that provides HTTP REST/websocket APIs on top of LSP implementations
Contributions:1 review, 24 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 5 months
apiimplementationshttp3websocketlsp
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