Gil is a researcher in IBM, storage clouds, security, and analytics group. He received his PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Haifa and completed a post doctoral position in Germany. In IBM he works with Apache Spark, Hadoop, Object Stores, no-SQL databases. He has more than 25 years of experience as a code developer, both server side and client side, knows Java, Python, Scala, C/C++, and Erlang.