Yaniv Kessler
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
🤩
RockstarYaniv Kessler is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling products from hands-on development to executive tech operations roles. Based in Tel Aviv, he progressed from individual contributor roles to Director of Engineering and VP Tech Ops at ironSource, and most recently served as a Principal Software Engineer at Unity. He thrives on novelty and exploration, bringing a maker’s curiosity to complex distributed systems, build pipelines, and platform engineering. Yaniv contributes to open-source tooling—most notably improving the NW.js build process—demonstrating attention to build reliability, cross-platform packaging, and test hygiene. Known for blending deep technical craft with operational leadership, he excels at turning experimental ideas into reliable, production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
838reputation
128kreached
12answers
1question
amazon-redshift
top-5%
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
nwjs10
nodejs10
automation-testing9
automation9
amazon-redshift9
automations9
testing8
git7
vertica6
amazon-web-services6
webscraping6
github6
json6
npm6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nwutils/nw-builder
Aug 2014 - Jan 2019
Build NW.js applications for Linux, MacOS and Windows
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yaniv primarily focused on refactoring and improving the build process for NW.js applications. Their work included updating the build system to use `forEach`, restructuring platform definitions, and creating separate modules for platform detection. They also implemented changes to incorporate command-line arguments into the NW.js executable. Furthermore, the user contributed to fixing caching issues for OSX downloads and updating the test suite.
nw-jselectronwindowsjavascriptlinux
kessler/forkraft
Jun 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 3 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.