Shahar Frank is a seasoned software development manager with 12 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently leading teams at Tesco from his base in England. He combines hands-on backend expertise—particularly with distributed systems like Kafka, Cassandra, Flink/Spark and Kubernetes—with people-first management practices such as coaching, intent-based leadership and structured career development. His background ranges from founding startups and building POCs to running high-throughput data infrastructure (200K events/sec) and shipping production streaming platforms. An active open-source contributor and former DAV Foundation back-end lead, he has practical drone-mission orchestration and real-time processing experience that complements his cloud-native architecture skills. Known for breaking complex epics into executable stories and removing delivery bottlenecks, he blends technical depth with pragmatic delivery focus.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo
🛰 Controls and orchestrates missions between vehicles and DAV users
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 181 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Shahar primarily focused on back-end development tasks, with commits showcasing changes to server-side code and controllers. Key contributions included bug fixes within the `MissionController.js` and `NeedController.js` files. Furthermore, the user implemented new features, such as static coordinates for the COEX-SITL and made several modifications to the `coex/drone.js` and related files, indicating a focus on drone-related functionalities. The user also implemented changes to the `BidController.js`, `MissionController.js`, and `StatusController.js`.
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