Shai Ungar
Senior Software Engineer at Riskified
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolShai Ungar is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and detection engines, currently driving work at Riskified after leading engineering efforts at Cyren. He specializes in distributed systems and tooling—Kafka, Kubernetes, DBMS—and is fluent in Go, Java, and Python, with a track record of operating production services for inbox security and risk-model infrastructure. As a tech lead he has mentored teams, designed detection pipelines for Office 365, and bridged research-to-production work dating back to Forcepoint and earlier roles. An active open-source contributor, he has improved configuration and testing in the prominent home-assistant core project, adding user-friendly integration flows and services. Based in Israel with a BSc in Computer Engineering from Bar-Ilan University, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a continual learning mindset. Outside work he balances focused coding with community contributions and the occasional espresso-fueled hack on personal projects.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
python10
testing10
configuration-management10
asyncio10
home-assistant10
home-automation10
mqttnet9
mqtt9
multipart-formdata9
oracle6
database6
heroku6
google-chrome6
windows6
odbc6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:153 reviews, 12 commits, 28 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shai primarily focused on improving the configuration and testing aspects of the `home-assistant/core` repository, specifically related to the SABnzbd and 17track integrations. Their commits involved removing redundant configuration paths and improving test coverage. The user also added and improved the configuration flow for the 17Track integration, making the system more user-friendly by adding a config flow for the integration. Furthermore, they added a service to archive packages within the 17track integration.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
shaiu/techicolorgateway
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Technicolor Gateway Scraper library
Contributions:12 releases, 61 reviews, 25 commits in 1 year 3 months
pypipythonscraper
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