Guy Korland
Founder at FalkorDB
Israel
Summary
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RockstarGuy Korland is a seasoned software leader and founder with 17 years of experience, currently CEO and co-founder of FalkorDB in the Tel Aviv district. He was SVP and CTO of Incubations at Redis, where he combined executive leadership with hands-on contributions to Redis core and many high-profile modules like RedisBloom, RedisGraph, RediSearch, RedisJSON, RedisTimeSeries and RedisAI. Korland uniquely blends low-level C systems engineering—fixing bugs, optimizing data structures and improving build/deploy pipelines—with product-minded touches such as client library refactors and analytics integrations. His open-source footprint spans database internals, client libraries and test/QA improvements, showing a rare mix of performance focus and operational rigor. With academic training at Technion, PhD studies at Tel Aviv University, and prior founder roles (Deuce STM, Shopetti), he has a track record of turning distributed-systems research into production-ready platforms.
17 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (76)
dockerce10
node-js10
python10
plugin-development10
inverted-index10
databases10
bash10
c1110
refactorings10
graph-database10
c1710
javas10
refactoring10
object-cache10
code-readability10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
RedisJSON/RedisJSON
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
RedisJSON - a JSON data type for Redis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 188 reviews, 459 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Guy primarily contributed to the development of the ReJSON module, focusing on implementing new features and expanding existing functionality. Their work included adding support for new commands such as `JSON.STRLEN` and enhancing the existing `JSON.GET` command with JSONPath support. The user also made several improvements, including optimizations and bug fixes, improving code quality.
document-storeredisrejsonjson-datadata-type
RedisBloom/RedisBloom
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Probabilistic Datatypes Module for Redis
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 46 reviews, 118 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Guy primarily contributed to the RedisBloom module by updating versioning and addressing potential code issues. They consistently updated the version number in `src/version.h`. They also cleaned up warnings, specifically related to overflow, in `src/rm_topk.c` and `src/topk.c`. Furthermore, the user added GTM functionality to the project, involving the addition of `gtm.js` and subsequent updates.
redisredis-clientredis-moduleredis-streamsredis-search
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