Shahar Hikri
Backend Developer at RavenDB
Israel
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Top SchoolShahar Hikri is a backend developer with seven years of hands-on experience, currently contributing to RavenDB where he focuses on improving database robustness, transactional reliability, and performance. A graduate of Afeka College of Engineering (B.Sc., with honors, GPA 91), he has practical experience as an academic assistant and early technical roles that grounded his troubleshooting and customer-facing skills. His open-source contributions to the well-known RavenDB project include bug fixes, refactors and features like sharded revisions deletion and clearer exception messaging, reflecting a pragmatic approach to reliability at scale. Based in Israel, Shahar blends formal engineering training with production-grade database engineering, and he’s reachable via a public GitHub that showcases his work and ongoing commitment to resilient backend systems.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering
Github Skills (12)
database-administration10
csharp10
database-design10
dotnet-core10
concurrency9
transaction9
distributed-systems9
transaction-manager9
error-handling9
transactionscope9
testing8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ravendb/ravendb
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
ACID Document Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1062 reviews, 231 commits, 194 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Shahar primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the RavenDB database. They addressed bugs related to index definitions, cluster transaction handling, and database operation behavior, and also worked on code refactoring to increase performance. Their contributions included implementing features that improve the robustness and reliability of the database, such as ensuring all revisions can be deleted for sharded databases, showing clear and informative exception messages, and adding auditing features.
nosqlravendbnosql-data-storagenosql-databasesc-sharp
shaharhikri/BattleRoyale_3D_Game_Unity
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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