Yaakov Chaikin
Principal Software Engineer at RealmOne
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolYaakov Chaikin is a Principal Software Engineer and educator with over 20 years of full‑stack experience, currently leading engineering at RealmOne and teaching web development to over a million students through Johns Hopkins/Coursera. He blends hands‑on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and modern front‑end frameworks (Angular, React, TypeScript, D3) with cloud and CI/CD tooling like AWS, Docker, Jenkins, and TeamCity. A seasoned mentor and curriculum designer, he has created two top‑rated Coursera courses and served as graduate faculty and program administrator, shaping web development education for years. Yaakov is also an active open‑source author—creator of mongoUnit and multiple developer tools—demonstrating a focus on practical testing and API ergonomics. His work spans enterprise systems and developer education, with a knack for turning complex data‑driven backend needs into polished, responsive front‑end experiences. Based in Baltimore, he combines academic rigor (MS, Johns Hopkins) with pragmatic product delivery across startups and long‑running government and corporate projects.
12 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityUMBCBA Talmudic Studies, BA Talmudic Studies at Ner Israel Rabbinical College
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
clearlydecoded/rest-messenger
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Easily create and expose a Spring REST-based API implementation, without losing strong Java message typing, improving simplicity and robustness of your implementations. It's so easy to use, you can start implementing your production APIs in under 5 minutes. Yes, really. Just see the How section.
Contributions:7 releases, 178 commits, 33 PRs in 5 months
javarestspring-rest
jhu-ep-coursera/restaurant-server
Aug 2016 - Nov 2019
The server-side application which serves the menu of the David Chu's China Bistro restaurant.
Contributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years 3 months
server-side
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