Yakir Gottesman
Senior Frontend Engineer at Backbase
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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RockstarYakir Gottesman is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Krakow with 12 years of experience building scalable, maintainable web applications for enterprise and consumer products. He specializes in TypeScript/JavaScript, Angular and Vue 2/3, and has a track record of modernizing UI libraries, upgrading frameworks (notably a Vue3 migration), and introducing Storybook-driven component testing across teams. Yakir excels at designing clean architectures and CI/CD optimizations that reduce deployment time and technical debt, while improving accessibility and performance. He’s known for mentoring engineers, promoting TDD and best practices, and simplifying complex technical problems into pragmatic solutions. His background spans founding small web ventures and leading front-end efforts for POS, ticketing, and client-facing enterprise apps, giving him a rare blend of product and engineering perspective. Colleagues rely on him to bridge business requirements to robust front-end implementations and to institutionalize quality across teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (50)
woocommerce10
fundamentals10
javascript10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
css10
http10
php10
commerce10
html10
web-development10
documentation10
shopping-cart9
vue9
web-standards9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yakirgot/snake
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
A snake game using JS and canvas
Contributions:11 PRs, 68 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 10 months
gamesnakecanvasjavascriptsnake-game
yakirgot/make-movable-task
Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 27 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 1 month
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