Summary
Jonathan Gafner is a software engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building and operating backend and release systems across semiconductor and ad-tech companies. He holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Shenkar and furthered his CS studies at The Open University of Israel, pairing formal engineering training with practical DevOps and release expertise. Oracle Certified in Java SE 7, Jonathan has worked extensively with Java/J2EE, Groovy, Objective-C, Spring, Hibernate, C++, and MySQL, and has transitioned between DevOps and release roles at Applied Materials, Taboola and DealHub. Currently at Applied Materials in Tel-Aviv, he focuses on resilient, production-grade tooling that bridges development and operations. Notably, his background spans both low-level engineering and high-availability release pipelines, giving him a rare blend of application-level and infrastructure-focused competencies.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Engineering at Shenkar
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Italian, English, Hebrew, Spanish