Experience & Awards

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Senior Software Engineer, IBM — watsonx.data
Toronto, Canada · 2024 – 2026

Led efforts around the Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake open table formats, focusing on performance optimization.
Designed and built automatic table optimization for Apache Iceberg tables.
Technical lead for two teams of 4–5 engineers each, providing technical guidance and direction.

Cloud Data Researcher, IBM Research — Cloud and Data Technologies group
Israel · 2018 – 2023

Researched SQL analytics over object storage using Apache Spark.
Co-creator of Xskipper, an extensible data skipping framework for Spark (patented and integrated into IBM products).
Researched delta-based conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs).
Developed a SQL engine that combines an OLTP database with object storage.
Taught internal courses on Spark SQL.

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2024, 2026)
Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (2025)
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for contributions to the IBM Spark offering (2025)
IBM Research Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for IBM ELT Pushdown Express (2023)
IBM Research Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for contributions to integrating IBM Cloud Object Storage into the IBM Cloud platform (2022)
IBM Research Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for contributions to IBM Analytics offerings on public and private cloud (2021)

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