Tal Sliwowicz
VP R&D - Infrastructure at Taboola
Israel
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Top SchoolTal Sliwowicz is a seasoned technology leader and VP R&D for Infrastructure at Taboola with 13+ years building and scaling petabyte-class data platforms serving hundreds of thousands of QPS across multi-cloud and seven physical data centers. He blends executive leadership with deep hands-on engineering across C/C++, Java, Go, Python, Objective-C and JavaScript, and has driven projects from video/audio transcoding and Chromium-based streaming to high-scale cloud applications. An Apache Spark committer and longtime Spark meetup organizer in Israel, he champions big-data performance and developer productivity while owning CI/CD, metrics and production reliability. He also contributes open-source tooling for performance engineering (go-wrk), reflecting a practical focus on benchmarking and optimization. Tal’s background uniquely pairs law and executive MBAs with two decades of product and R&D ownership, enabling a rare mix of technical depth, strategic market thinking and operational rigor. Colleagues know him for turning complex distributed problems into measurable, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
LLB, Law, LLB, Law at Tel Aviv UniversityKellogg School of Management
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (10)
performance-tuning10
performance-monitor10
performance-analysis10
go10
performance-monitoring10
performance-analytics10
performance-measurement10
concurrency10
command-line-interface9
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tsliwowicz/go-wrk
May 2013 - Jun 2022
go-wrk - a HTTP benchmarking tool based in spirit on the excellent wrk tool (https://github.com/wg/wrk)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer / Performance EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 59 commits, 19 PRs in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tal primarily contributed to the development of a HTTP benchmarking tool, focusing on core functionality and performance aspects. They implemented the core request logic, including handling redirects, and response size calculations. The user also worked on optimizing the tool by adding features like disabling compression and keep-alive, and incorporating the ability to read URLs from files to facilitate testing. Further enhancements included the addition of more detailed statistics such as average request time, and slowest/fastest request times.
golangspiritbenchmarkingconcurrencywrk
taboola/gethosts-foreman
Jan 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 8 months
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