High‑scale systems, real‑time networking, and cloud backends that never flinch.

I’m Shahar Ston — SW Team Lead & Engineer. I build low‑latency services, resilient networking paths, and AWS‑native platforms in C++17 and Python for products that operate at global scale.

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What I do

Networking & Low‑Latency

IP routing, Netfilter/iptables, tc, QoS, VPNs, NAT traversal
UDP/TCP pipelines, lock‑free patterns, telemetry ingestion
Secure channels (DTLS/TLS), load balancing, observability

Cloud & Microservices

AWS: ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront
Eventing: Kafka, SQS/SNS, gRPC, ZMQ, Protobufs
CI/CD: Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins

Backend & AI Agents

FastAPI services in Python, high‑performance C++17 services
RAG & AI workflows, data processing, Pydantic v2 schemas
System design, code reviews, reliability engineering

Selected work

Live Sports Platform — DAZN

Backend services powering user predictions & campaigns for 300M+ users. Built FastAPI microservices, DynamoDB data models, and CloudFront‑fronted APIs with idempotent writes, ETag versioning, and zero‑downtime deploys.

FastAPI
DynamoDB
CloudFront
ECS

Remote Driving — Ottopia

Designed and implemented UDP‑based relays and traffic shaping for remote vehicle operation over LTE/5G. Lock‑free/low‑copy data paths, resilient failover, and secure links. Led a team of 6 engineers + 2 QA end‑to‑end.

C++17
iptables/tc
Kafka/ZMQ
Security

Tech I love

C++17, Python 3.12, Bash
FastAPI, gRPC, Protobufs, Kafka, ZMQ
Docker, Terraform
Linux, networking, observability

AWS: ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Route53
Dynamo data modeling, GSIs, pagination, ETags
Security: TLS/DTLS, IAM, secrets management
DevEx: CI/CD, testing, linting, docs

About

SW Team Lead & Engineer with 8+ years building high‑scale, low‑latency systems and 3+ years leading core networking teams. Formerly at Samsung, Imperva; Team Lead at Ottopia. I thrive on turning complex ideas into production software and mentoring teams to ship reliably.

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