Summary
Tal Sheldon is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale data and distributed systems, currently building a realtime feature store at Wix that processes billions of events daily for online ML, personalization and A/B testing. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Kafka, Spark (batch and continuous), Flink, Aerospike and cloud data platforms, and is fluent in Scala, Java and Python. Tal’s background spans migrating Hadoop lambda architectures to cloud Kappa systems, building cost-effective big-data platforms on Kusto, and delivering production APIs and DevOps automation across Azure, GCP and AWS. An active educator and researcher—now lecturing and teaching ML courses while authoring unsupervised feature-selection algorithms presented at international conferences—he blends production-grade engineering with academic rigor. Tal’s 6k+ Stack Overflow reputation reflects a commitment to community problem-solving beyond his day job.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Reichman University
Hebrew, English