About RavenDB

Oren Eini, pseudonym Ayende Rahien, is a frequent blogger at ayende.com has over 15 years of experience in the development world who strongly focuses on the Microsoft and .NET ecosystem. Oren has been recognized and awarded Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional since 2007.

He's an internationally acclaimed presenter appearing at DevTeach, JAOO, QCon, Oredev, NDC, Yow! and Progressive.NET conferences, sharing his knowledge via conferences and written works such as "DSLs in Boo: Domain Specific Languages in .NET", published by Manning and now another book in the writings "Inside RavenDB"

He remains dedicated and focused on architecture and best practices that promote quality software and zero-friction development.

Reeb is our technical writer. When he is not squeezing information out of defenseless developers, he is sharpening his tactics in one of his daily Kung-Fu lessons. He’s also a Shiatsu so once he breaks a developer for not having the docs in time, he can fix him up so they can write the new material for the next version of RavenDB.

He does all kinds of normal stuff, like developing and integrating strange machines from a long gone era in time – the eighties! His great love has always been writing, fortunate for us!

Marcin is a R&D specialist who has worked in the industry since 2009 and joined RavenDB team in 2013. He is a well-trained developer with dozens of complex projects completed in the past and an author of Java client for RavenDB.

Currently Marcin maintains Java client, Studio and the server-side of RavenDB.

Iftah has been a proud Rhino since 2016. He started out developing Voron, our in-house storage engine. Now he is on our security team, making sure the information entrusted to you by your users stays private. Iftah has been writing code since he was 12, working at Intel’s Wifi group before he joined us. He graduated University with a double degree in Software Engineering and Applied Mathematics.

In his spare time, Iftah loves to cook. An avid football player, he loves to watch the English Premiere League while eating homemade pizza.

Michael is a full-stack software developer with background in development of applications in the financial sector. By day, as member of RavenDB Core Team he works mostly on the server side of things and by night he becomes a tinkerer with passion for new stuff, coding in general and lots of unfinished pet projects.

Tomasz is a software developer working in the industry since 2013, enjoying back-end puzzles, exploring the front-end world, and sometimes wandering off to spice it up with some CI work.

In his spare time, he likes delving deep into all genres of books, with a great love for sci-fi.

Igal Merhavia, once a marine biologist, has emerged from the depths of understanding zebra fish genome code to the heights of developing the Raven.

He likes to drink coffee - especially while coding. Unsurprisingly, he loves to go kitesurfing in his spare time.

It's not rocket science!
But even it is, chances are Karmel will not be deterred as he has several years of professional experience in one on the world's most prestigious aerospace manufacturers in the field of electrical engineering. While studying for his BSc in Computer Science from The Humboldt University of Berlin – which housed Einstein, Max Planck and Schrödinger, he also worked as a full-stack developer with Symfony2 and AngularJS frameworks. Now Karmel is part of our development team at Hibernating Rhinos - and just waiting to take off!

Mor studied biology and mobile app development before joining the team as a technical writer. In his spare time he enjoys hiking and drawing.

Dalia Globus Gamrian has a long time experience in administration issues. At Hibernating Rhinos she mainly takes care of the welfare & manpower side of the company. She loves helping people and take care of the employees happiness (-:

Efrat Shenhar works on the Hibernating Rhinos' development team as a software developer. Her academic education and past experience makes her a perfect fit for our young and dynamic team. Shenhar graduated from the Technion – Israel Technology Institute with a B.Sc. in Computer Science, and boasts experience in reading, analyzing and converting DVBT/TS streams, in addition to having worked with Linux and Unix systems.

Efrat is married, loves to bake, play tennis and create new games for her pets.

Rafal is a graphic designer and and a CSS expert. Experienced in animation, web and print design. Searches for a perfect blend of design and practicality. His favorite colors range from #000 to #FFF. Loves design, typography, gadgets, sci-fi and fantasy. Finds inspiration in music.

Proud father of a lovely daughter.

10 Years experience in C++ under Unix, worked at ECI Telecom, mainly on Optical Networks, with familiar telecom providers such as BritishTelecom (BT), Vodafone, Bezeq..

Love everything related with cars, especially chip tuning (where programming skills becomes additional pure horse power)

David Ben Horin is the Hibernating Rhinos CD, content dude. HubSpot certified for Inbound Marketing, he has been working in digital marketing for over 10 years. He has experience in Wall Street, FinTech, Mobile Applications, and Personal Finance. A coding hobbyist, some of his websites and web apps are pretty interesting. He is also our technical writer.

David loves to write, and is an avid reader. He collects metaphors in his spare time. He is married with three children. 

If one word had to describe Danielle, it would probably be diversity. After achieving her degree in mathematics and computer science from Haifa University, she has collected a variety of certifications and a wide range of experience in .NET programming, automation development and Web & GUI development. Danielle is a professional who likes nothing more than to learn new technologies and solve logical challenges. She has worked with some of the leading companies in Israel, many of them global powerhouses, and now she is part of RavenDB's Studio team.

Fresh out of college, and with a B.Sc. degree from Ben-Gurian University of Be’er Sheva in hand, Aviv is a welcome addition to Hibernating Rhinos’ core development team. His past achievements involved robotics, computational vision and AI. Add all that to his motivation and out-of-the-box thinking, he is sure to make his mark on RavenDB products. In addition to his technical prowess, Aviv likes to play the guitar and take nature hikes – and rumors abound about his well-developed culinary skills...

Mateusz has been interested in graphic design for years, starting with simple, personal projects. Nowadays he is particularly focused on designing creative visual identities and webdesign. Tries to convey the most important content in eye-catching, minimalistic form.

After working hours he is a big football fan, TV series lover and casual gamer.

Maxim Buryak is an experienced software engineer and has been working as a core member of the RavenDB project since 2014. Maxim has extensive experience in the telecommunication field, building critical services for one of the largest cellular carrier in Israel.

Maxim has over 6 years of experience in development and lifecycle management of C2 software. He particularly enjoys working on the server-side, performance optimization, a good challenge and a better discussion.

Łukasz has been developing his passion for software programming for several years. He works on HibernatingRhinos' development team as a software developer. Łukasz enjoys both the intricacies of the back-end world as well as the nuances of the front-end architecture. He eagerly delves into a wide range of problem-solving tasks while aiming to deliver maintainable solutions. Łukasz loves classical music with particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth century piano repertoire.

Arkadiusz is a senior software developer that joined the world of software development in 2010 and RavenDB team in 2012. He gained experience by developing other sophisticated Hibernating Rhinos solutions.

Now as a member of a RavenDB team he is taking care of server-side issues and enjoys solving concurrency problems.

Ronit is a senior bookkeeper. She brings to Hibernating Rhinos a wealth of experience working with international import and export companies. Along with her passion for work, Ronit loves to travel throughout Israel, see the world, and have lots of fun with her closest friends.

Elemar is well known for writing and speaking about advanced topics on software development, design and software architecture. He has over 15 years of experience and is focused on the Microsoft ecosystem. He has been recognized and awarded Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional since 2011.

Grzegorz is an experienced software developer working in the industry since 2009 and is now part of the RavenDB team. As a skilled web developer, he believes that the name of the game is all about automation and creating incredible user interfaces.

On a private note he's a techno geek, sci-fi addict, music lover and a father of three.

Grisha has several years of experience in Java and .Net programming, graduated from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Computer Science. Today at Hibernating Rhinos he 's part of the core development team working on new features and enhancements for RavenDB. He loves development, loves to start from scratch and watch what the results are in the end.

To see and travel the world, absorbing nature and cross boarder cultures has been a base to inspiring this thoughts and work.

Federico is co-founder of Corvalius a R&D company specialized in machine learning, computer vision and performance. His background is in massive parallel computing (CPU and GPU alike), signal processing and low-level optimization. It’s fair to say he enjoys reading in binary and tinker with registers and caches.

Tal Weiss fell in love with computer science while studying mathematics at the Technion. It was a simple introduction course and an internship at Intel that did the trick.

Tal has been working on the Raven DB core team since 2014, where he began debugging and expanding his expertise in the NoSQL domain. Tal Weiss has since become a central team member for developing performance enhancements and benchmarking for RavenDB. In fact, Tal has actually become the face of RavenDB, introducing it at conferences overseas.

Shiri Dror is a member of our Marketing & Sales team. She comes to us with experience as an office manager with expertise in logistics, purchasing and project support.

She loves spending time with her family at home, cooking, baking and running outdoors.

Experienced in Sales & Marketing, Customer Service, Financial Reporting and Analysis.  I've had the privilege to work in an array of industries from Investment Banking, Entertainment, Textile, Broadband to Hi-tech. A great extent of my life and work experience has been about moving beyond my comfort zone handling the unknown through hard work, dedication and persistence to acquire self- fulling growth. I love spending time with my family and the great outdoors.

Egor is a software developer who works on back and front end of the Hibernating Rhinos Development team. A hard worker, he has a Bsc in Software Engineering from the Shamoon College of Engineering in southern Israel.

Egor is married and loves playing and watching streams.

Paweł is an experienced software development enthusiast that is working in the industry since 2009 and has joined RavenDB team in 2012. Paweł spent pre-RavenDB period writing applications for e-Goverment sector in the USA.

Currently he leads RavenDB team in Poland and enjoys working on server-side and solving non-trivial problems in particular.

Judah is a full stack web developer, speaker, entrepreneur, and Raven evangelist. He runs Twin Cities Code Camp, Minnesota's largest developer event, and he's the creator of Raven Studio. Outside of work, he likes to play music, write about theology, and go on bike rides with his kids.

Juliette is our Marketing Coordinator. In her free time she enjoys contemporary art, hiking with her family and practicing yoga :-)

Ofra is part of our Marketing & Sales team. She brings to Hibernating Rhinos over 8 years experience in marketing, operations and project management for global high-tech companies. She graduated the University of Haifa with a double degree in English Literature and Language & Asian Studies, majoring in Chinese.

She is very passionate about learning new technologies and meeting new people from different cultures. She enjoys the outdoors, culinary arts, and more than anything - being with her family.