Udi Ben-amitai
Software Engineer at lakeFS
Israel
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolUdi Ben-amitai is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend systems and leading engineering teams across startups and scale-ups. He has led cross-functional teams through operational transitions—migrating source control, introducing CI/CD, and improving delivery predictability—while owning high-throughput programmatic and commerce channels. Hands-on with search and analytics, he contributed improvements to the official elasticsearch-net client to handle edge cases and boost maintainability. Based in Israel, he combines technical depth in Java/.NET ecosystems with a focus on team growth and developer productivity. Outside work he balances engineering pragmatism with family life and an ongoing quest to become a better snowboarder.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
bsc Computer Science, bsc Computer Science at The College of Management Academic Studies
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (14)
elasticsearch-net10
net10
asp-net10
querydsl10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
dotnet10
client-library10
aws-elasticsearch10
csharp10
nest10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
api-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch-net
May 2014 - May 2014
This strongly-typed, client library enables working with Elasticsearch. It is the official client maintained and supported by Elastic.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 4 days
Contributions summary:Udi primarily contributed to the `elasticsearch-net` client library, focusing on enhancing the FunctionScoreQueryDescriptor. Their commits implemented support for the `field_value_factor` function in the FunctionScoreQuery. Further commits included reformatting code and fixing a typo within a CardinalityAggregationDescriptor, contributing to the library's overall maintainability and functionality. The user also made adjustments to ensure that the library correctly handles edge cases.
dot-net-clientelasticsearch-netdot-netclient-libraryelastic
UdiBen/elasticsearch-net
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
nestelasticsearch-netelasticsearch
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