Yael Harel
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYael Harel is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of professional experience building high-performance back-end systems and developer tooling, currently contributing at Netflix from New York. She has a strong track record across large-scale infrastructure roles at VMware/Pivotal and Dell EMC, where she advanced from algorithm developer to technical leader on storage and recovery systems. Yael is an active open-source contributor to prominent cloud-native projects like Envoy and the Cloud Native Buildpacks "pack" CLI, improving cross-platform performance, CI/CD workflows, and developer ergonomics. With an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and early technical leadership experience in the IDF, she blends rigorous academic grounding with practical systems-level problem solving. A less obvious strength is her fluency moving between low-level performance optimizations and higher-level developer experience improvements, enabling her to ship tools that both scale and are pleasant to use.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Github Skills (21)
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cloudnativepg10
back-end-development10
windows10
command-line-interface10
networking10
cicd10
go10
command-line10
cprogramming-language10
cloud-native10
buildpack10
cli10
dockers9
apidoc9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
buildpacks/pack
Apr 2020 - May 2020
CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 86 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yael primarily focused on modifying and updating the `pack` CLI, a tool for building applications using Cloud Native Buildpacks. Their contributions included fixing acceptance tests, refactoring code related to lifecycle execution and builder interactions, and adding support for a `--default-process` flag. The user also made changes related to the handling of buildpack registries and experimental features, indicating a focus on improving the tool's functionality and developer experience. The commits also indicate the user is working on the integration of new features to the pack tool and its interaction with lifecycle.
cloud-native-buildpackscncfbuildpackscloud-nativecli
envoyproxy/envoy
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 38 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yael primarily contributed to the Envoy proxy's back-end functionality and core infrastructure. They made changes to improve code efficiency, such as using `memcpy` on Windows, and refactored code organization by moving the `IoError` interface to the `Api` namespace. Their contributions included refactoring and optimizing internal components, specifically the `utility` and `filesystem` modules, for better performance and cross-platform compatibility. The user also worked on the CI/CD process to facilitate the running of compile time options.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
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