Shahar Shelly
Software Engineering Team Lead at Similarweb
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolShahar Shelly is a seasoned software engineering team lead with 10 years of hands-on experience building and guiding cross-functional engineering teams across video, analytics, and UX-focused products. Currently leading engineering at Similarweb after senior leadership roles at WalkMe and Natural Intelligence, he combines deep front-end expertise (including complex video/CDN systems) with solid backend/API experience and a track record of mentoring and scaling teams. An active contributor to open-source tooling for API testing, he enhanced a CI-ready REST test framework with fake-data generation and broader form-data support—showing a practical focus on quality and test automation. Based in Tel Aviv, he brings a blend of systems-thinking and pragmatic delivery, shaped by early work on multimedia platforms and a long-standing commitment to developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at The Open University of IsraelB.A Degree in Software Engineering Computer Science, B.A Degree in Software Engineering Computer Science at Sapir College, Sderot, IsraelHigh School, High School at Makif Gimmel High School Ashdod, Israel
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
api-rest10
rest-api10
javascript10
nodejs10
api-design10
restful-api10
yaml10
testing10
fakerjs9
faker9
lib9
axios8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eykrehbein/strest
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
⚡️ CI-ready tests for REST APIs configured in YAML
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 17 PRs, 10 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Shahar significantly enhanced the REST API testing framework by adding features and improving functionality. They implemented support for fake data generation using `faker` library, allowing for more flexible test data. Furthermore, they incorporated features like form data and form URL encoded parameters to support a wider variety of API testing scenarios. The user also updated dependencies, including `ora`, and addressed type errors within the project.
apitestingapi-testingrestrest-api
shrikster/strest
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
⚡️ Set up tests for REST in seconds with YAML
Contributions:5 PRs, 37 pushes, 11 branches in 10 months
testingset-uprestrest-apiyaml
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