Yuval Shkolar
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Israel
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Top SchoolYuval Shkolar is a Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years building microservices and data pipelines, now leading platform engineering at NVIDIA after his startup illumex.ai was acquired. He founded and scaled illumex.ai to commercialize an active business glossary using a stack of Python, Node.js, Neo4j and React, blending product focus with deep engineering. Previously at Sisense he led infrastructure and AI architecture work, authoring production data pipelines processing tens of gigabytes daily with Kinesis, Spark and Airflow. Yuval pairs hands-on coding—evidenced by meaningful contributions to the apache/datafusion-sqlparser-rs project adding SQL and semi-structured data features—with practical leadership of cross-functional teams. Based in Israel, he brings an operator’s mindset to customer happiness and product delivery, often working end-to-end from requirements through support. His background in IDF R&D and early .NET systems gives him unusually broad experience across languages, platforms and operational realities.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
parser10
lexer10
datatypes10
abstract-syntax-tree10
big-data10
parsing10
sql10
parse10
rust10
lex10
snowflake9
spark-submit6
apache-kafka6
airflow6
windows6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/datafusion-sqlparser-rs
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Extensible SQL Lexer and Parser for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 9 commits, 24 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Yuval primarily focused on extending the SQL parser and lexer functionality for the `apache/datafusion-sqlparser-rs` repository. Their contributions included implementing support for new SQL syntax features like parentheses in DISTINCT clauses, `CURRENT_TIMESTAMP`, `CURRENT_TIME`, `CURRENT_DATE`, `NVARCHAR` data type, and the `POSITION` function. They also added support for Snowflake's array data type and semi-structured data access, alongside improvements to the `CREATE VIEW` statement. The changes involved modifying the parser, AST, and common testing files.
sql-parserrustsqlextensibleparser
illumex-ai/sqloxide
Oct 2022 - Jun 2024
Python bindings for sqlparser-rs
Contributions:12 releases, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 1 year 8 months
rustpython-bindingssqlparserpython
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