Yair Fax
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Haifa District, Israel
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Top SchoolYair Fax is a Forward Deployed Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building pragmatic, secure back-end systems and integrating them into production environments. Currently at Palantir, he applies a blend of problem-solving and client-facing engineering to deliver mission-critical software. His background includes systems-level teaching assistant roles at the University of Maryland and a production internship at Comcast where he built a Go backend and real-time web tooling. An active open-source contributor, he helped implement core censorship-evasion features and demo tooling in the geneva project, demonstrating attention to robustness and privacy-focused engineering. Comfortable across languages like Go, Java, C, Ruby and OCaml, he pairs low-level understanding with full-stack delivery. Based in Haifa, Israel, he brings a practical, security-minded approach and a track record of translating complex requirements into reliable, auditable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of MarylandYeshivat Har Etzion
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Github Skills (6)
python10
networking10
act9
testing9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Kkevsterrr/geneva
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
automated censorship evasion for the client-side and server-side
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yair primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `geneva` project, focusing on implementing features related to censorship evasion. Their work included adding a sleep action primitive, fixing arguments in the engine, and setting up a custom logger for demo mode. They also integrated the "demo-mode" functionality and addressed merge conflicts.
censorship-circumventionproxyclient-sidecensorshipnetworking
yairfax/puz_downloader
Nov 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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