About

Arik Abulafya is an experienced Full Stack Developer currently working at Booking.com. He is a MAMRAM graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University. With over 9 years of experience in various technologies, Arik has been working as a full stack developer since 2015. At his current position, Arik is responsible for developing financial communication between Booking.com and its partners, using Java and Perl. He has also initiated and given a lecture about Clean & Testable Code Guidelines in front of the team. Arik has previously worked as a Full Stack Developer at Panaya, where he implemented lazy loading, improved SQL queries, and performed general code improvements as part of a project to increase system performance and enhance scalability. He was also responsible for indexing the various entities in the system in Elasticsearch, in a project to integrate Elasticsearch within the system. Additionally, he developed a generic reports query infrastructure that reduced development efforts. At SAP, Arik was the lead developer in a new SaaS project for simplifying the use of an internal Amazon EC2-compliant service. He developed a new user interface, a RESTful API, and a full automation process for creating and managing virtual servers, running against an internal service. Arik's education includes a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University and a Certificate in Computer Software Engineering from IDF Programmer's School (MAMRAM). Arik's tech stack includes Java, Elastic Search, SQL, MySQL, Spring, UI, Infra, AWS, and Javascript. With 14.36 years of relevant experience, Arik is a skilled Full Stack Developer with a passion for developing clean and testable code that performs at scale.