Yoni Shalom
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolYoni Shalom is a Principal Engineer based in Vancouver with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling both frontend and backend systems for millions of users. He has led technical launches at AWS RDS—driving Performance Insights, Aurora Serverless, and RDS Proxy—and previously managed backend systems and platform architecture for high-throughput mobile and messaging products. Yoni's background spans low-level native work (C/C++ camera APIs, custom mono builds, ffmpeg integration) to distributed cloud services, NAT traversal and P2P networking, showing uncommon breadth across OS-level, desktop, and cloud domains. He contributes to open-source tooling (notably improving Java telemetry integration via a Log4j2 appender in Microsoft’s ApplicationInsights-Java) and routinely blends operational rigor with product-driven engineering. Known for rescuing and rearchitecting complex production systems, he pairs deep technical problem-solving with team leadership and a taste for clever, pragmatic engineering.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Software Engineering, B.Sc. Software Engineering at Academic College for Engineering in Tel-Aviv
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
sdk10
azure-application-insights10
telemetry10
java10
app-insights10
testing10
azure9
asp-net-core-mvc9
gradle7
gradlew7
json6
asp-net6
asp-net-mvc6
logging6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java
Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
Application Insights for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:210 commits, 90 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Yoni primarily implemented features related to integrating Log4j v2.1 appender within the Application Insights for Java project. Their work involved creating a new appender, responsible for logging events using the Apache Log4j 2 framework, and integrating the application with Log4j 2. The commits also included modifications to the existing Gradle wrapper and the addition of tests, including unit tests for error and exception telemetry.
java-agentapplication-insightssqlobservabilitysdk
microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Docker
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Application Insights for Dockerized Apps
Contributions:89 commits, 6 pushes, 2 tags in 11 months
application-insightsdockerdocker-composedockerizedinsights
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