Yair Even-zohar
Senior Lecturer at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering
Israel
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Top SchoolYair Even-zohar is a senior lecturer and seasoned data scientist with 13+ years building large-scale ML and NLP systems across academia and industry, including leadership roles at Playtika, Taykey, Salesforce, and Jeeng. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC and blends rigorous research with hands-on engineering to deploy production recommender, entity-matching, and advertising systems at scale. As Chief Data Scientist at ML Magicians he consults on end-to-end ML solutions while also teaching AI at Afeka College, bridging theory and practice. An active front-end tinkerer, he contributes to the popular open-source tag input project tagify, improving UX details like focus behavior and dropdown positioning—an example of his eye for both algorithms and elegant interfaces. Based in Israel, he pairs deep technical leadership with a curious, craft-oriented approach evident in both code and his love of growing plants.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
jscript10
javascript10
input-field10
meta-tags10
inputbox10
tagging10
react9
react-component9
react-components9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
yairEO/tagify
Oct 2016 - Feb 2022
🔖 lightweight, efficient Tags input component in Vanilla JS / React / Angular / Vue
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:99 releases, 8 reviews, 989 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Yair primarily worked on improving the functionality and fixing bugs related to the tag input component in the "yaireo/tagify" repository. Their commits focused on enhancing the focus behavior, refining the positioning and highlighting of dropdown items, and addressing issues in mix-mode. The user implemented bug fixes and improved functionality of the tag input component.
react-componentreactjavascripttags-inputvanilla-js
yairEO/fancyInput
Feb 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years 2 months
csscss3fields
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