Yakir Zana
Mobile Team Lead Wix Services
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYakir Zana is a pragmatic mobile engineering leader and co-founder with nearly two decades of hands-on experience building scalable backend and React Native applications. Currently serving as Mobile Team Lead at Wix Services, he combines full‑stack expertise (React Native, Node.js, AWS) with a knack for foresight in project planning that keeps codebases concise and maintainable. He previously led infrastructure efforts running millions of automated tests and helped scale a high‑traffic file‑hosting platform he co-founded. Known for calmness under pressure and effective mentorship, Yakir introduces development methodologies that measurably improve product stability. An active contributor to the popular react-native-calendars project, he has improved calendar performance and UX through focused front-end fixes. Based in Israel with an engineering degree and executive MBA studies, he blends technical depth with product and team leadership.
4 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Software Engineering, B.Sc. Computer Software Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
react-native10
react10
ui-components10
calendars9
ios8
android8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wix/react-native-calendars
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
React Native Calendar Components 🗓️ 📆
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 8 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Yakir primarily focused on enhancing the `react-native-calendars` library, specifically the `InfiniteAgendaList` component. Their contributions included adding support for features like item height customization, scroll view props, and refresh control. They also addressed bugs related to scroll behavior and momentum scrolling, improving the component's overall functionality and user experience. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the performance and flexibility of the calendar component.
reactcalendarreact-nativeandroidreact-native-calendar
yakirza17/aws-cdk
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
development-kitcost-optimizationaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructure
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