Yaron Goland
Principal Software Architect at Microsoft
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYaron Goland is a principal software architect with over two decades of experience turning ambiguous challenges into secure, scalable products at global scale. He co-created OAuth 2.0 and the precursor to JWTs, led the original platform and business case for Microsoft Purview, and shaped the Sentinel Data Lake API and ISV strategy while driving Cosmos DB reliability and performance. Comfortable bridging deep protocol and systems design with product and program leadership, he repeatedly moves projects from prototype to enterprise adoption and RFP wins. An active contributor to open-source data projects like PouchDB and CouchDB tooling, he combines hands-on backend fixes and QA improvements with a history of founding internal startups (Thali) and shipping high-throughput ML and identity platforms. Based in Santa Monica with a UCLA CS degree, he’s known for connecting teams, tech, and vision to make “what if” into “it’s live.”
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
766reputation
36kreached
18answers
1question
nosql
top-5%
azure
top-5%
Github Skills (28)
couchdb10
javascript10
testing10
http10
databases10
java10
javas10
http-client10
android10
couchbase-lite10
database10
nosql9
ssl9
performance-testing9
database-testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pouchdb/pouchdb
Mar 2014 - Jul 2016
:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Yaron primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the PouchDB project by modifying the HTTP adapter. Their work included improving URL generation, enhancing destroy functionality, and making the `getHost` function pluggable. The user also added pull replication performance tests and made style improvements within the project. Furthermore, the user addressed an unhandled rejection issue and fixed the support for ajax on GET requests.
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couchbase/couchbase-lite-android
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Lightweight, embedded, syncable NoSQL database engine for Android.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Yaron primarily focused on improving the test suite's robustness within the Android Couchbase Lite project. Their contributions involved closing input/output streams that were left open, which caused subsequent tests to fail. The user addressed these issues across multiple test files, ensuring proper resource cleanup. Additionally, they made adjustments to test assertions for increased tolerance on varied hardware.
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