Shahar Soel
Software Architect at SAP
Israel
Summary
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RockstarShahar Soel is a Software Architect with 11 years of experience at SAP, progressing from developer to architect while focusing on building reliable, maintainable systems. He combines hands-on full-stack development with architecture leadership, having driven refactors and tooling improvements in open-source projects like prettier-java and Chevrotain. Notably, he refactored prettier-java into a monorepo, improved test performance by migrating frameworks, and contributed to parser implementations—work that reflects an emphasis on developer experience and code quality. Based in Israel, he brings enterprise software discipline together with practical open-source craftsmanship, often tackling infrastructure and testing pain points that improve long-term project velocity.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
parserator10
javascript10
parser10
javaparser10
lexer10
testing10
typescript10
java10
pretier10
javas10
typescript-types10
prettify10
typescripts10
json9
chai9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Chevrotain/chevrotain
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
Parser Building Toolkit for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 146 reviews, 1417 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Shahar primarily worked on implementing features within the Chevrotain Parser Building Toolkit for JavaScript. Their contributions involved adding functionalities for the JSON parser example and creating the supporting infrastructure. They also fixed a couple of specifications and example bugs. Further, they worked on building tests, making build config updates and improvements to the overall code quality, specifically in relation to the integration of the parser's features.
twinespell-checkermarkup-languagejavascriptrule-based
jhipster/prettier-java
Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
Prettier Java Plugin
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 85 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Shahar primarily focused on refactoring the project into a mono-repository structure, splitting the code into parser and prettier plugin packages. They modified the testing framework, switching from Jest to Mocha and Chai for improved performance. Additionally, the user implemented a script to update expected test output files. The user also made contributions to the java parser's code and the prettier plugin itself.
prettier-javajava-pluginjavatypescriptprettier
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