Yaniv Dahan
Principal Engineer at Broadcom Inc.
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYaniv Dahan is a Principal Engineer with over 25 years of hardware and system engineering experience and 11+ years in senior roles, currently driving architecture and FPGA design at Broadcom from Israel. He blends deep expertise in Verilog/SystemVerilog, high-speed board and PCB design, and scripting with practical system-level work on wireless coexistence, video subsystems, and wired protocols from roles at Qualcomm, TI, and Cisco. Yaniv also contributes to open-source observability work, improving OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Redis, MySQL2 and AWS SDK integrations, showing a strong cross-domain fluency between hardware emulation and backend tooling. Known for leading FPGA emulation and prototyping efforts, he pairs hands-on RTL and board-level design with pragmatic QA and automation to accelerate silicon bring-up. Colleagues rely on him for solutions that bridge chip, board, and software layers—often surfacing subtle system interactions early in the design cycle.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Practical Engineer with honors Electronics, Practical Engineer with honors Electronics at Amal - HaderaBS.c Electronics Engineering, BS.c Electronics Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Github Skills (8)
opentelemetry10
nodejs10
javascript10
testing10
aws-sdk9
mysql8
redis8
cicd7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js-contrib
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
OpenTelemetry instrumentation for JavaScript modules
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 17 commits, 18 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Yaniv primarily focused on improving the OpenTelemetry instrumentation for various JavaScript modules, particularly for Redis and MySQL2. They added testing scripts to cover multiple versions of these dependencies and removed console logs for cleaner code. Additionally, the user contributed to the AWS SDK instrumentation by fixing span names, adding HTTP status code attributes, and optimizing context propagation.
javascriptopentelemetry
YanivD/opentelemetry-ruby
Nov 2021 - May 2022
OpenTelemetry Ruby API & SDK, and related gems
Contributions:7 reviews, 23 PRs, 94 pushes in 6 months
opentelemetry-rubyapiapi-sdktracingruby
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