Yaakov Sokolik
Software Engineer at Pinecone
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYaakov Sokolik is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently building core infrastructure for Pinecone’s vector database from Zurich. He combines systems-level expertise from roles at Intel and Radiflow with academic depth earned during an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science at Technion, where he also taught and led compilation courses. Yaakov’s background spans performance-sensitive SDK work and production distributed systems, giving him a sharp focus on low-latency, scalable storage and retrieval. Colleagues know him for translating research-grade ideas into reliable engineering and for taking ownership of complex subsystems end-to-end.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (24)
pinecone9
jupyter-notebook9
python8
ai8
sdk8
vector-database8
semantic-search8
vector-search7
llm7
nginx6
lua6
health-check6
node-client5
webserver5
quic5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pinecone-io/rust-toolchain
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Concise GitHub Action for installing a Rust toolchain
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
sarifrustinstallingrust-toolchaintoolchain
yaakovs/DiskANN
Jul 2022 - Aug 2024
Scalable graph based indices for approximate nearest neighbor search
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
graph-basedscalablenearest-neighborapproximate-nearest-neighbor-searchindices
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