Zohar Arad
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Israel
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Top SchoolZohar Arad is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building cloud-native, high-performance backend systems, currently driving engineering at Datadog. He specializes in Go, Python, Ruby and JavaScript, with deep expertise in microservices, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure and scalable databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Elasticsearch. Zohar has a proven track record of migrations and cost-optimization—most notably moving core services from MongoDB to PostgreSQL and replatforming microservice stacks from Ruby to Go while introducing container orchestration on Mesos and Kubernetes. He pairs pragmatic engineering with system design, owning scheduling/workflow components, agent communication protocols and observability to improve reliability and traceability. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced Fluentd’s S3 plugin with compression, format options and tests, and has hands-on front-end UX contributions to civic projects. Based in Israel with a BA in Digital Media Production, he blends full-stack craftsmanship, DevOps discipline and a bias for rapid prototyping.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Digital Media Production, Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Digital Media Production at University of the Arts London
English
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Github Skills (20)
css10
aws10
front-end-development10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
lessc10
fluentd10
s3-bucket10
gzip9
ruby9
ui-design9
sprite9
bootstra8
testing8
bootstrap8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fluent/fluent-plugin-s3
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Amazon S3 input and output plugin for Fluentd
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zohar primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Fluentd S3 output plugin. They added support for gzip compression and the ability to store data in different formats (json, text, gzip). Furthermore, the user refactored the code to improve the way the extension and MIME type are determined. Additionally, they added tests to validate the functionality of the plugin.
fluentd-pluginamazonfluentdamazon-s3aws-s3
ofri/Open-Knesset
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
** The official repo is at https://github.com/hasadna/Open-Knesset/ . Please fork it, instead of my repo.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Zohar primarily focused on front-end development, enhancing the visual aspects and user experience of the application. Their contributions involved styling the application using LESS, including imports and overrides, adding and positioning social icons, and implementing search form styling. They also addressed font import errors and added sprite images. These changes demonstrate a focus on UI/UX improvements within the project.
my-repo
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