Yaakov Ellis
Senior Software Engineer And R&D AI DevEx Lead at FundGuard
Yad Binyamin, Center District, Israel
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Top SchoolYaakov Ellis is a Senior Software Engineer and R&D AI DevEx lead with 14 years of professional experience and over two decades of hands-on software work, including 18+ years remote, known for reliably shipping full‑stack, enterprise-grade SaaS features on schedule and budget. He combines deep backend Java and cloud expertise (AWS Solutions Architect certified) with practical AI tooling experience—leading AI Champions, authoring an internal MCP server and integrating AI automation into build pipelines to accelerate developer workflows. A former long‑time Staff Engineer and Tech Lead at Stack Overflow, he has driven platform-wide initiatives from editor improvements to analytics and moderation tooling while contributing to popular open-source projects like MiniProfiler.dotnet. Based in Israel, he mentors engineers, runs AI training curricula, and tracks AI adoption with custom KPIs and dashboards—trying to leave systems and teams measurably better than he found them.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Maimonides SchoolBAS, Computer Science, BAS, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (29)
data-modeling10
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dotnet10
asp-net-core10
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sql10
database-design10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
javascript9
signalr9
mvc9
asp-net-mvc9
rest9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MiniProfiler/dotnet
Oct 2013 - Jul 2016
A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET (and Core) websites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 160 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yaakov primarily contributed to the core functionality of the mini-profiler for .NET websites. They added new render positions for the profiler's UI and updated the sample MVC project to allow testing of the new positions. The user also performed code cleanup, updated NuGet packages, and integrated Entity Framework 6. These contributions focused on expanding the profiler's features and maintaining the project's dependencies.
aspeffectiveasp-netaspnetcoreasp-net-core
yellis/Gematria
Feb 2013 - Feb 2020
A .net Class Library for calculating the Gematria value of strings of Hebrew text, or convert numbers into Hebrew Text
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 1 PR in 7 years
unlockstringsclass-libraryhebrewphonetics
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