Iftach Yakar
Principle SW Engineer - CTO Exploration Team
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolIftach Yakar is a Principal Software Engineer and technical leader with 11 years of hands-on full‑stack experience and a strong track record of shipping high‑impact products under aggressive timelines. Currently leading CTO Exploration at Citi while completing an MSc in Computer Science (Quantum Information), he bridges production engineering with quantum-research tooling—co-leading quantum PoCs and publishing practical QAOA work with Classiq and AWS. He previously drove a critical CSS-native styling and plugin framework at Wix that improved site performance and maintained 99.9% uptime for millions of users, and co-founded a fast-moving startup that launched a multi-platform product in three months. Known for mentoring engineers and translating research ideas into production-ready systems, he also creates accessible quantum projects like Quantle, highlighting a knack for making complex topics playful and practical.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Open UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science - Quantum Information, Master's degree, Computer Science - Quantum Information at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (175)
expressjs10
rest-api10
backend10
relay10
mbaas10
actionbutton10
cross-platform10
android10
nodejs10
mongodb10
ios10
react-native10
parse10
react10
txt9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DeDuckProject/quantum-playground
Nov 2021 - May 2023
A Jupyter notebook environment to play around with quantum circuits/calculations using Qiskit
Contributions:14 PRs, 39 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 7 months
quantum-circuitsquantum-computingcalculationscircuitsjupyter-notebook
wix-incubator/html-overlays
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
create a portal that knows where it came from
Contributions:50 commits, 16 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cameknowsportal
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