Natan Yellin
Chief Executive Officer at Robusta Dev
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolNatan Yellin is a software leader and CEO with 17 years of experience building cloud-native monitoring and DevOps tooling, currently steering Robusta to deliver smarter Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps engineering with product leadership, having contributed code to Robusta itself—improving CLI, Slack integrations, and automated remediation workflows. His background spans government research, senior engineering at Alcide, and multiple early-stage cofounder roles, giving him a rare mix of operational security, startup grit, and systems engineering. Technically fluent across observability, Kubernetes, and automation, he also maintains deep tooling know-how from earlier full‑stack and Emacs package work. Based in Israel and educated in a dual Computer Science and Physics program at Technion, he brings a scientific rigor to pragmatic, production-grade solutions. An interesting detail: he actively bridges product and code, shipping both strategic company direction and direct fixes that improve reliability for users.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dual major, Computer Science and Physics, Dual major, Computer Science and Physics at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
slack-integration10
package-management10
python10
emacs-lisp10
kubernetes-pods10
automated-tests10
devops10
git9
cli9
http8
logging7
django-admin6
django-models6
vim6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
robusta-dev/robusta
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Better Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes - smart grouping, AI enrichment, and automatic remediation
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 473 reviews, 626 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Natan contributed to multiple areas, including enhancements to the command-line interface for robusta, fixing slack integrations issues, adding a new action, and fixing test. The changes focused on improving the functionality, integration, and reliability of the project, with a focus on features and stability. These changes touched upon several areas, including code-level changes and updating testing procedures.
optimizationspythonobservabilitydeveloper-toolsnotifications
dimitri/el-get
Oct 2011 - Dec 2011
Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Natan primarily contributed to adding and maintaining recipes within the el-get repository, a tool for managing Emacs Lisp packages. They added new recipes for various Emacs packages like `evil-leader`, `evil-surround`, and `mac-print-mode`. They also fixed an existing recipe for `htmlize` and merged changes with other contributors, demonstrating a focus on package management and Emacs Lisp development. Their work involves configuring the integration of external packages into the Emacs environment.
elispspacemacsmagitemacsbits
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