Tamar Stern is a seasoned software development leader with 10+ years building and scaling backend systems and teams, now heading the software development group at Tigo Energy. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Node.js, Python and Golang with proven architecture and cloud-native experience across Kubernetes, Kafka, and big data stacks to deliver multi-tenant, high-scale systems. Tamar has repeatedly grown engineering groups from scratch to 30+ engineers, led major stabilization and scalability efforts (including a 20x scale improvement), and designed CI/CD and infrastructure for newly acquired tech. A frequent public speaker on JavaScript and architecture, he also contributes to open-source tooling—enhancing Bit’s dependency-status command and adding multi-component automation features—reflecting his interest in developer productivity. With a CS B.Sc. and an MBA from Tel Aviv University, he combines technical depth with product and organizational insight.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Management of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Management of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship at Tel Aviv University
A build system for development of composable software.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 12 PRs, 102 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tamar primarily worked on the "bit" project, focusing on enhancing the "dependency-status" command and adding functionality for programmatically adding multiple components. They implemented and refined the "dependency-status" command, fixing bugs and improving the output format. Furthermore, the user developed an API for adding numerous components simultaneously, incorporating features like specifying component paths, IDs, and handling gitignore configurations, thereby enhancing the project's usability and automation capabilities.
Contributions:197 PRs, 347 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Tamar Stern - Softwre Development Group Lead at Tigo Energy