Yaara Cohen
Founding Team Lead at Freelance
Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYaara Cohen is a pragmatic engineering leader and founding team lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack and AI-enabled products across startups and research labs. She combines deep backend expertise (Python, Scala, Go) with modern frontend skills (React, Next.js) and practical ML/LLM integrations, having shipped syntactic search with BERT and RAG documentation systems. Yaara has repeatedly owned end-to-end delivery—from requirements and architecture to CI/CD and production support—while mentoring teams and shaping roadmaps. Her background spans cloud-native deployments (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS) and data-driven systems (Elasticsearch, Postgres, Mongo), and she’s led GenAI training initiatives, bridging technical execution with knowledge transfer. With an MSc in Bioinformatics and an MBA in Entrepreneurship she uniquely blends research rigor, product-mindedness, and startup grit.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Extreme C#, Extreme C# at John BryceMaster of Business Administration - MBA Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies and Organizational Behavior, Master of Business Administration - MBA Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies and Organizational Behavior at Tel Aviv University - Coller School of ManagementProfessional Studies Data Science and Machine Learning, Professional Studies Data Science and Machine Learning at School of Data Science YDATAMaster of Science (MSc) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc) Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv UniversityB.Sc Computer Science and Computational Biology, B.Sc Computer Science and Computational Biology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Github Skills (30)
jasmine8
eslint8
wix8
react-component8
burn8
athena6
nodejs5
jsdoc5
react-components5
trino5
javascript4
bigquery4
webworker4
democracy4
presto4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wix-incubator/wix-ui-lib-bower
May 2015 - Oct 2015
A repository to hold wix-ui-lib releases for twitter's bower http://wix.github.io/wix-ui-lib/
Contributions:7 releases, 6 commits, 5 pushes in 4 months
bowertwitterwix
yaarams/spark
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
everythingburnboxnodejssuite
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