Russell Pekala
Ops at Yuzu Health
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Pekala is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building integrations and backend systems across mission-driven startups in New York. He blends rigorous CS and math training from Harvard with hands-on product work at companies like Transcend, Vienna Hypertext, and Yuzu Health, where he focuses on operating health plans "from first principles" and improving care delivery. Known on GitHub as an "Abstraction Designer," he gravitates toward clean system design and pragmatic integrations rather than flashy surface-level features. Early roles—from data science and REU neural‑net work to scaling a college matchmaking product—show a pattern of quickly owning technical and operational problems. He’s comfortable stepping on toes to protect values and has a knack for cold outreach and growth tactics that surfaced during his student ventures. Russell combines technical depth with a care-first approach to building trustworthy, user-centered health technology.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Southwest Senior High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Math/Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Math/Computer Science at Harvard University
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
109reputation
2kreached
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Github Skills (74)
pooling9
pool9
nodejs9
mongodb9
database8
javascript8
postgresql8
orm8
mssql8
query-builder8
sqlite8
sql-server8
prisma8
mariadb8
mysql8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
theodoretliu/Datamatch-Data
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:32 pushes in 1 year 3 months
russellpekala/qguide
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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