Yair Altman
Owner at Octahedron
Israel
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Top SchoolYair Altman is a veteran MATLAB expert, author, and entrepreneur with nearly 30 years of professional programming and R&D leadership experience, currently running UndocumentedMatlab.com and Octahedron. He blends deep technical expertise—authoring two CRC Press MATLAB books and popular toolkits like export_fig—with product-minded consulting for complex domains from real-time aerospace to image recognition and ecommerce. A long-time MathWorks community advisor, he’s known for bridging business and technology: finding pragmatic, system-wide solutions while retaining attention to low-level details. His open-source work and the largest independent MATLAB site demonstrate a rare combination of influential community impact and hands-on engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Bar-Ilan UniversityHebrew Academy, Montreal
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Github Skills (12)
matlab10
image-processing10
plot9
user-interface9
algorithms8
algorithm8
legend6
figure6
hashtable6
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Github contributions (5)
altmany/export_fig
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
A MATLAB toolbox for exporting publication quality figures
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 releases, 250 commits, 12 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Yair primarily contributed to fixing bugs and implementing features related to the MATLAB code's image export functionality. They addressed specific issues related to the creation and handling of EPS and PDF files, including problems with line widths, text rendering, cropping, and transparency. The user also made changes to support different output file formats, like EMF and GIF, further enhancing the tool's capabilities for generating high-quality images from MATLAB figures. The user also addressed issues regarding code compatibility with older and newer MATLAB versions.
matlab-toolboxmatlabtoolboxfiguresquality
altmany/EODML
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:7 releases, 8 commits, 10 pushes in 3 years
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