Ilya Yakelzon
Senior Software Developer at Lantern
Bussum, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolIlya Yakelzon is a Senior Software Developer with 15+ years of experience building high-performance server systems, embedded cryptography, and accelerated mobile graphics. Based in the Netherlands, he combines hands-on full-stack work with team leadership across startups and enterprise clients, most recently at Lantern and Catawiki. He has deep practical experience in C/C++, Node.js, Python, and TypeScript, and has shipped production features and robust E2E tests for well-known open-source projects like Mattermost. His background spans low-level kernel and driver work, game-engine graphics (cocos2d-x), and cloud-native DevOps automation, reflecting a rare breadth across systems, frontend, and embedded domains. Notably, he has led distributed development teams, designed migration strategies for DVCS adoption, and architected both high-throughput backends and real-time device interfaces. Driven by a constant curiosity, he intentionally seeks projects that expose him to new technologies and challenging integration problems.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering at Braude Academic CollegeOrt Motzkin
English, Russian, Hebrew
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Github Skills (50)
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plugin-development10
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typescript10
redux10
mattermost10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost-redux
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Redux for Mattermost
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 34 commits, 60 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ilya contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the Mattermost-redux repository. Their work included implementing user role tracking within client-side diagnostics, adding and modifying API calls and data structures, and modifying the front-end code to handle archived channels in mobile apps. The user also improved the performance of fetching threads by supporting API parameters and maintaining reply counts. Furthermore, they worked on TypeScript conversion and websocket handling related updates.
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mattermost/mattermost
Apr 2019 - May 2021
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:166 reviews, 195 commits, 293 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily focused on rewriting and improving plugin API tests. They refactored existing test cases to leverage actual plugin functionality, ensuring more accurate testing. The user's work involved restructuring test files, creating a meta-test for automated execution, and addressing various issues related to plugin paths and RPC tests. They also contributed to the implementation of a migration to add an identifier for compliance exports when a message is posted by a bot account.
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