Uri Agassi
Tech Lead Manager at Waze
Israel
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Top SchoolUri Agassi is a seasoned tech lead and manager with 14 years of experience building and scaling big-data, cloud-native systems from prototype to production. Currently leading Waze's Routing organization, he combines hands-on engineering with team building to deliver features like HOV, restricted-area routing and multi-cloud migrations while maintaining 5k+ qps with 99%+ availability. He has deep, polyglot expertise across languages (Ruby, Java, .NET, JavaScript), databases (Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis) and cloud platforms (AWS → GCP), and led a major monolith-to-microservices overhaul. Uri repeatedly turns market-validation experiments into production products, having founded core backend teams and shipping integrations such as Waze + Google Assistant. He’s comfortable stepping into unfamiliar stacks, learning fast, and owning both architecture and operational excellence. Based in Israel, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a track record of cross-regional collaboration and event-driven product evangelism.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at Tel-Aviv UniversityBSc, BSc at Tel Aviv Art School
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Github Skills (36)
testing10
rspec10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails10
postgresql9
json9
regex9
amazon-web-services9
heroku9
sinatra9
amazon-ec29
recursion9
documentation9
sorting9
hash9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
uriagassi/sash
Jan 2014 - May 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 years 4 months
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uriagassi/paperless.node
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 21 PRs, 161 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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