Liran Funaro
Research Scientist at IBM
Haifa District, Israel
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Top SchoolLiran Funaro is a research scientist with 14 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, resource allocation and cloud economics, currently on IBM’s Blockchain Research team after a research role at Yahoo. He holds a PhD from Technion where he developed novel cache and multi-resource auction algorithms and built practical evaluation frameworks that bridge academic insight and production constraints. Liran has a strong track record of turning theoretical ideas into deployed systems—designing, implementing and operating solutions that expose real bottlenecks and monetize project benefits. He’s contributed to industry-academic programs and taught parallel and distributed programming, reflecting both mentorship and broad technical stewardship. Based in Haifa, he combines low-level systems expertise (embedded/RT and automation tools) with applied research in cloud incentives and memory-elastic applications.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (direct track), Computer Science, 95, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (direct track), Computer Science, 95 at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (56)
traversal10
apache-druid10
sphinx-extension10
big-data-analytics10
subtree10
database10
druid10
key-value9
plugin9
markdown9
docker-engine9
python9
sphinx9
documentation9
byte9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
236371/ewolf-webgui
Jun 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:90 commits in 4 months
liran-funaro/orion-server
Jun 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:135 pushes, 34 branches in 10 months
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