Yaniv Aknin
Principal Engineer at Attio
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorYaniv Aknin is a Principal Engineer with 15+ years building reliable, cost-efficient distributed systems and a lifelong coder who started at age eight. He has led large engineering orgs at Google—founding GCP’s reliability analytics and driving compute-efficiency and margin optimization—and more recently helped found and scale AI engineering and forward-deployed teams at Tessl. Comfortable both shipping deep technical work (including open-source contributions to widely used projects like flask-restful) and shaping cross-functional strategy, he blends hands-on systems design with financial and reliability-minded decision making. Based in the UK, he thrives on hard problems that teach him something new and has rare experience experimenting with pre-release models inside enterprise codebases.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
4,153reputation
226kreached
11answers
19questions
Github Skills (18)
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
flask-ask10
rest-api10
flask10
marshalling9
logging6
heroku6
amazon-s36
rest6
http6
http-verbs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flask-restful/flask-restful
Nov 2012 - Jan 2013
Simple framework for creating REST APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yaniv contributed to the `flask-restful/flask-restful` project by implementing new features and making improvements to the existing code. They added argument chaining functionality, which improved the usability of the RequestParser class. The user also introduced a Namespace class to handle request parameters, improving how data is accessed. Additionally, they fixed a formatting error and added a custom marshalling hook for improved data transformation.
apisimple-frameworkrestfulrestrest-api
fusic-com/flask-webcache
Feb 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
pythonflaskcachingcacheflask-extension
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