Summary
Yagel Bar is a software architect and engineering leader with eight years of experience building mission-critical payments and infrastructure platforms, currently shaping Papaya Global’s payment orchestration. He combines hands-on engineering—from real-time big data and ML pipelines to microservices and cross-cutting infrastructure—with product-facing work, guiding features from POC to high-throughput production. Previously he led R&D infrastructure and innovation at Payoneer, driving adoption of modern tooling (Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka) and mentoring teams to reduce boilerplate and improve code quality. A physics-trained problem solver, Yagel is known for squeezing performance from complex streaming jobs and translating domain expertise (e.g., fraud analytics) into deployable models and services. He favors rapid learning and pragmatic technology choices, balancing deep technical craft with stakeholder collaboration across multinational teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at The Hebrew University
English, Hebrew