Karen Yavine Shemesh
Engineering Manager at Qodo
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaren Yavine Shemesh is an engineering manager with nine years of experience building security-focused, full-stack systems and leading teams in New York. She progressed from security analyst and automation engineer to building Snyk’s vulnerabilities database and later managing an 11-person team responsible for security-first product experiences and high-scale risk scoring systems. Karen combines hands-on development (Python, Django, queuing/scheduling, frontend and backend architecture) with hiring, career development, and strategic planning. Her background includes QA and automation in security-focused companies and early product/tech-support leadership in the IDF, giving her a disciplined approach to reliability and incident resilience. She has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a knack for turning analyst workflows into scalable automated systems that minimize data loss. Colleagues know her for pragmatic technical guidance and an upbeat personality that keeps teams engaged under pressure.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ostrovsky high schoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (90)
parser10
security10
sarif10
vulnerabilities10
database10
snyk10
monitor10
vulnerability10
software-composition-analysis10
nodejs10
supply-chain-security10
monitors10
static-analysis9
markdown9
cli9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
karenyavine/testing
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:18 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 8 months
karenyavine/spring-data-rest
Jun 2018 - Feb 2025
Simplifies building hypermedia-driven REST web services on top of Spring Data repositories
Contributions:25 PRs, 78 pushes, 84 branches in 6 years 9 months
spring-bootrepositorieshypermediaspring-datahibernate
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