Avi Youkhananov
Software Engineering Team Lead Cloud Platform
Israel
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Top SchoolAvi Youkhananov is a Software Engineering Team Lead specializing in JVM-based systems with 9 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native platforms. He has progressed from Java backend engineer to leading cloud platform and backend guilds, shaping architecture, CI/CD and developer productivity across organizations like Outbrain and Teads. Avi combines deep hands-on skills in Java/Kotlin, distributed databases and big-data stacks (Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra, Vertica) with a track record of improving onboarding and development velocity. He’s comfortable across the stack—designing microservices, tuning performance, and running cross-team initiatives—and has also led real-time bidding and image-processing systems that handled hundreds of thousands of requests per second. Based in Israel with a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, he pairs technical depth with strong communication and mentoring abilities, often translating complex infra problems into pragmatic developer-facing tooling.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science at Netanya Academic CollegeEngineering/Industrial Management, Engineering/Industrial Management at John Bryce
Hebrew, Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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visual-studio
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Github Skills (43)
kafka10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
kafka-consumer10
apache9
asynchronous9
visual-studio9
tcp8
ipc8
udp8
netty7
mono7
monorepo6
rpc6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
outbrain-inc/ci-friendly-flatten-maven-plugin
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 releases, 10 reviews, 156 commits in 2 years 3 months
outbrain/folsom
Dec 2020 - Mar 2024
An asynchronous memcache client for Java
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 72 pushes in 3 years 4 months
javaasynchronousmemcachearq
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