Shai Erera
Principal Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Haifa District, Israel
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Top SchoolShai Erera is a Principal Engineer with 13+ years of experience bridging research and production engineering to deliver robust, scalable systems from Haifa, Israel. He combines deep academic grounding (M.Sc. in Computer Science) with long-tenured industry impact at IBM and Amazon, where he progressed from researcher to senior and now principal engineering roles. An Apache Lucene/Solr committer and contributor to high-profile projects like Netflix Eureka, Shai focuses on reliability, service registries, and improving core library quality in distributed systems. He excels at turning research insights into production-ready code, evidenced by bug fixes and architectural improvements that enhance observability and resilience. Colleagues know him for thoughtful engineering leadership, mentoring, and a knack for subtle but high-leverage improvements in logging, builder patterns, and client libraries.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at University of Haifa
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (7)
netflix-eureka10
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
strings9
text-manipulation9
logging8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/eureka
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
AWS Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing and failover.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Shai primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the code quality of the Eureka client library. Their contributions included addressing issues related to the Builder pattern in the `InstanceInfo` class and correcting improper usage of `String.toUpperCase()`. They also made improvements to logging levels to ensure correct information display. The user's changes demonstrate their involvement in core functionalities of the service registry.
service-registryresilientmidload-balancingfailover
shaie/elasticsearch
Dec 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 6 months
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
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