Matan Keidar
Software Team Lead - Wix Velo
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolMatan Keidar is a pragmatic technology leader and Team Lead at Wix with over a decade of hands-on experience building large-scale backend and big-data systems. He specializes in Scala-driven architectures, microservices, data pipelines and CI/CD, and has a track record of modernizing legacy platforms into cloud-native, scalable services. His background spans research-grade algorithm work (M.Sc. thesis on frontier detection) to productizing NLP and entity-tagging services at Thomson Reuters, showing comfort crossing from theory to production. At Pipl he led migrations, taught developer courses, and even contributed an open-source GitHub Action for Java/Scala/SBT and Docker workflows, reflecting an emphasis on developer experience. Based in Israel, he blends deep technical craftsmanship (Scala, Akka, Spark, Kubernetes, GCP) with people and process leadership, improving team delivery and onboarding. Notably, his early research delivered algorithms several orders of magnitude faster than prior art, a pattern he carries into pragmatic performance improvements in production systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Computer Science, M.Sc, Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew, French
Github Skills (13)
sbt-plugin9
akka-streams9
wix8
akka8
data-warehouse7
stream-processing7
knowledge-graph7
scala3
playframework3
protobuf2
google-cloud-storage1
pekko1
grpc1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
matankdr/coursera
Jul 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
matankdr/thesis-biu
May 2017 - Mar 2023
Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/thesis-biu
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
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