Shany Pozin
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Israel
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Top SchoolShany Pozin is a Principal Software Engineer based in Israel with over 18 years of experience designing high-performance, low-latency systems and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He combines deep systems and distributed-systems expertise—spanning Rust, C/C++, Go and cloud-native tooling—with a track record of shipping production-grade security, networking and storage solutions at Microsoft, Snap, Neon and Juniper. At Neon he led the storage team and contributed backend improvements to the popular Neon serverless Postgres project, optimizing data structures and tenant configuration for better performance and PITR behavior. A hands-on architect and mentor, he recruits and ramps engineers, runs design reviews, and embeds DevOps culture to improve release quality and on-call reliability. Known as a pragmatic problem-solver and autodidact, he repeatedly turns complex, low-level challenges into scalable, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (11)
databases10
rust10
postgresql10
database-design10
database10
serde9
configuration-management9
json8
testing8
caching6
wcf6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:288 reviews, 25 commits, 133 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shany primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Neon serverless Postgres database. Their work focused on modifying data structures within the pageserver, specifically optimizing the handling of layers and indexes. These changes involved making properties optional, modifying configuration and data structures, and migrating files, which improved data management and performance. Additionally, they implemented updates to the tenant configuration, including a switch to hex string inputs for tenant IDs and increased the default PITR interval.
neonrustserverlessautoscalingoffer
shanyp/azure-rest-api-specs
Mar 2020 - May 2020
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 month
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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