Summary
Yam Borodetsky is a Software Engineer and Technical Lead with nine years of experience building platform infrastructure and developer-centric tooling, currently leading platform engineering at Zynga’s mavens. He specializes in scalable full‑stack systems—TypeScript, Node.js, React, Firebase/GCP—and focuses on auth, access control, CI/CD, component libraries, and automation that saves engineers time. Yam has designed RBAC and OAuth SSO solutions supporting 2,000+ users and maintained production systems with six‑nines availability using traceable logging and GitHub Actions pipelines. A hands-on mentor, he balances building maintainable automation with improving developer experience and onboarding through codegen and turborepo optimizations. Outside work he channels pattern recognition into chess, competitive programming, and playful productivity hacks—ask him about his fridge optimization project.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Science, B.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Science at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)
English, Hebrew, Russian