Itamar Syn-Hershko
Founder at BigData Boutique
Israel, United States
Summary
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SeniorItamar Syn-hershko is a seasoned Big Data entrepreneur and engineer with 17 years of experience architecting scalable, mission-critical systems across OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Kafka, ClickHouse, and streaming stacks. As founder & CTO of BigData Boutique and CEO of Pulse, he builds AI-driven SRE solutions that proactively manage search clusters for global customers, turning in-house ops tooling into commercial products. A former Apache Lucene.NET committer, Microsoft MVP and current OpenSearch Ambassador, he pairs deep open-source credentials with hands-on cloud and DevOps expertise—authoring deployment automation that spans Terraform, Packer, Grafana and multi-cloud tuning. He’s spoken internationally on search and observability, led identity and real-time search projects at Forter, and runs HebMorph to improve Hebrew search—a niche effort that highlights his attention to language-specific IR challenges.
17 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (55)
lucene10
markdown10
messaging10
amazon-elasticsearch10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
cloud-infrastructure10
distributed-systems10
indexing10
terraform10
java10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
BigDataBoutique/elasticsearch-cloud-deploy
Dec 2016 - Jan 2022
Deploy Elasticsearch on the cloud easily
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 118 commits, 57 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Itamar primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project. Their work involved setting up and configuring Elasticsearch on the cloud, automating the build and deployment processes using Packer and Terraform, and integrating monitoring tools like Grafana and Cerebro. They also addressed various issues related to memory locking, security, and cloud provider-specific configurations, including Azure and GCP. This suggests a strong focus on ensuring the smooth operation and scalability of the Elasticsearch deployment.
elasticsearchawsterraformpacker
synhershko/NAppUpdate
Aug 2010 - Feb 2018
A simple framework for providing auto-update support to .NET applications
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:203 commits, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Itamar refactored the existing framework to provide auto-update support to .NET applications. Their work included modifying the `UpdateManager`, and adding support for reading and implementing update tasks, including file updates and registry updates. The code changes also show a focus on dependency management and overall codebase maintainability.
dotnet
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