Sep 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Remote

• I helped Sauce Labs serve 6TB of traffic daily without dropping connections. Rewrote their production reverse proxy to run 10x faster by switching to HTTP/2 and optimizing Go implementation. Zero downtime during the migration.
• I kept enterprise customers running when their corporate networks broke things. Fixed connectivity issues across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments. Managed production incidents as on-call engineer.
• I contributed bug fixes and patches to Go's standard library (net/http, http2). Built and maintained Forwarder, the HTTP MITM proxy that powers Sauce Connect. Started with Google's Martian project, then rewrote most of it over time.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2022 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel · Remote

• I helped devops teams automate backup and repair across multi-node ScyllaDB clusters by building the Scylla Manager.
• I made Go developers more productive with ScyllaDB and Cassandra. Created gocqlx (ORM, query builder, migration tools) that became widely adopted. Built experimental driver that ran queries 4x faster than the standard driver.
• I led four university students building a lock-free Go driver. It scaled linearly across CPU cores and ran 2x faster than the Rust driver. Benchmark: 100M row parallel inserts.
• I maintained the Scylla Go driver fork (gocql). Optimized Rclone's Linux page cache usage and multithreaded performance.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel · Remote

• I helped developers expose local applications to the internet without needing public IPs or complex infrastructure. Built go-http-tunnel using HTTP/2 and TLS for secure tunneling.
• Developers could test webhooks and share local work instantly. No VPN setup, no firewall rules, no public IP management.
• Kelsey Hightower highlighted the project on Twitter. Code is open source.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region · Remote

• I helped retail staff in 200+ stores close sales faster with reliable in-store tools. Built the sales system backend with MongoDB and real-time data sync so inventory and pricing stayed consistent across all locations.
• Sales teams could check stock, process orders, and access customer data instantly on Android tablets. No waiting for slow systems or dealing with stale data.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Remote

• I helped financial institutions process payments 50% faster. Optimized database operations and transaction handling so customers spent less time waiting for payment confirmations.
• I worked with Comsec to secure the payment platform against threats.