Yotam Harchol
Senior High Performance Architect at NVIDIA
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYotam Harchol is a Senior High Performance Architect at NVIDIA with 12 years of experience bridging research and production systems in networking and distributed computing. He holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University, where his award-winning dissertation developed algorithms and frameworks for middleboxes and network functions, and his career spans roles at DFINITY, EPFL, UC Berkeley and VMware. Equally comfortable in academia and industry, he has contributed to core blockchain infrastructure (notably reliability and transport improvements in the Internet Computer client/replica) and led performance-focused engineering across low-level networking stacks. He combines deep theoretical grounding with hands-on systems work—having taught computer science for nearly a decade—so he often surfaces practical, research-backed optimizations that improve reliability and observability at scale.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Computer Science at The Hebrew University of JerusalemB.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Reichman University
English, Hebrew, German
Github Skills (7)
firewall10
rust10
networking10
blockchain10
system-administration9
prometheus7
git4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dfinity/ic
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Yotam primarily focused on enhancing the infrastructure and functionality of the Internet Computer blockchain source code. Their work included adding retry mechanisms to firewall tests, indicating a focus on improving the reliability of network communication. Further contributions involved improvements to the transport interface documentation and adjustments to transport metrics, implying an active involvement in the network's performance and monitoring aspects. The code changes spanned files related to memory management, firewall configurations, and registry, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the system's core components.
replicablockchainnodesdfinityinternet
DeepnessLab/mca2
Jan 2014 - Jul 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
implementationsmatchingaho-corasickstandalonepattern-matching
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