Yaara Cohen - Founding Team Lead at Freelance

Yaara Cohen

Founding Team Lead at Freelance

Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv District, Israel

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Yaara 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 Bryce

Master 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 Management

Professional Studies Data Science and Machine Learning, Professional Studies Data Science and Machine Learning at School of Data Science YDATA

Master of Science (MSc) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc) Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University

B.Sc Computer Science and Computational Biology, B.Sc Computer Science and Computational Biology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Github Skills (41)

wix8

burn8

eslint-config7

eslint7

jasmine7

eslint-plugin6

react6

athena6

webworker6

javascript6

runner5

nodejs5

bdd5

tdd5

qunit5

Programming languages (5)

TypeScriptLiquidScalaJavaScriptPython

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

ui-libbowerwixtwitter

yaarams/spark

Feb 2018 - Apr 2018

Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month

everythingburnboxnodejssuite

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