Uri Okrent
Senior Principal Software Something Something - Cloud Thingy at VAST Data
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUri Okrent is a seasoned senior principal software engineer with 17 years building infrastructure and cloud-facing systems, currently leading cloud engineering at VAST Data from New Jersey. He brings deep systems and language fluency—Unix, Python, Perl, C++, RPC—and a solid background in storage and data-management stacks from roles at EMC XtremIO and Disney Animation. Uri pairs hands-on backend craftsmanship (SQLAlchemy, Twisted, XML-RPC) with a knack for developer-facing tools, evidenced by meaningful contributions to the popular git-cola GUI where he improved UX, performance, and diff handling. He is comfortable moving between low-level performance work and higher-level architecture, shipping reliable services at scale. A UCLA computer science graduate, he blends production-hardened engineering with a pragmatic, open-source mindset that surfaces practical optimizations rather than academic abstractions.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (15)
git10
pyqt10
windows-gui10
qt10
python10
platform-independent9
multiplatform9
difference9
platform-agnostic9
cross-platform9
rebase7
editor7
visualizations7
editors7
visualization7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
git-cola/git-cola
May 2009 - Jun 2018
git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 2 comments in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Uri primarily contributed to the `git-cola` project, focusing on improving the GUI and adding functionality. Their work involved fixing bugs related to the inotify feature and adding shortcut keys for stage/unstage operations. Furthermore, the user refactored code, addressing string handling in views and optimizing the dag view by adding branch coloring, and the display of commit details. Additionally, the user worked on making diffs more efficient and implemented changes to improve the git configuration handling.
vcspythongit-guigit-addonsgui
ugtar/pg_temp
Jul 2016 - Sep 2021
create a temporary, disposable, userland pg database
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 48 commits in 5 years 2 months
forumsdatabasedisposableuserlandsqlite-database
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