Yam Marcovic
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Apex.AI
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYam Marcovic is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Israel with 12 years of experience building low-level systems and user-facing features across companies from startups to Microsoft and Apex.AI. He combines systems and kernel-level expertise (AOSP/graphics/kernel roles) with practical product-focused work, evident in contributions to the open-source Remarkable Markdown editor where he improved RTL support, search UX, and customizeable styling. At Microsoft he progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Senior Architect before moving to Apex.AI, demonstrating a trajectory from deep technical implementation to architectural leadership. His background includes defense and imaging systems, giving him a strong foundation in reliability and performance-sensitive engineering. Colleagues would note his ability to bridge kernel/system internals and polished front-end interactions—an uncommon full-stack hardware-to-UI skill set.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Books
Stackoverflow
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206answers
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Github Skills (12)
css10
markdown10
linux10
gtk10
markdown-it10
ui-design9
python8
javascript7
destructor6
lambda6
stdout6
ruby6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jamiemcg/Remarkable
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Remarkable - The Markdown Editor for Linux http://remarkableapp.github.io
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yam primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Markdown editor. Their contributions include adding support for right-to-left text direction within the "View" menu, implementing a find dialog for text searching, and fixing cursor behavior in right-to-left documents. They also worked on styling and customization, including adding style options and applying custom CSS.
linuxlive-previeweditormarkdownmarkdown-editor
ymarcov/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:66 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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