Yaron Schwimmer
Senior Software Engineer at Lemonade
Netherlands
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Top SchoolYaron Schwimmer is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience and a strong track record across security, startup, and product teams in the Netherlands. He has progressed from backend and game development roles to tech lead and principal engineering positions, shipping production systems at companies like Snyk, PerimeterX, and Lemonade. Yaron is a pragmatic polyglot who codes regularly in Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Python and Lua, and has influenced architecture, hiring, and onboarding while still spending most of his time writing code. He contributed to the widely used Snyk CLI—improving container image scanning, JSON output ergonomics, and exclusion logic—demonstrating a focus on developer experience and security tooling. Colleagues rely on him for hands-on technical leadership and thoughtful trade-offs between delivery velocity and maintainability. He combines formal CS education with practical engineering across full-stack, DevOps, and security domains.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tel Aviv UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Reichman University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (22)
json10
docker10
containerization10
dockers10
security10
go10
vulnerabilities10
testing9
monitor9
javascript9
ionic9
angularjs9
callback9
angular9
jasmine6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 36 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Yaron primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Snyk CLI, contributing features and fixing bugs related to container image scanning. They implemented a container alias for the docker flag and added support for grouping issues in JSON output, enhancing the usability of the output format. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to excluding base image vulnerabilities and improved the JSON response for container applications, making improvements to its compatibility.
clisecuritysnykvulnerabilitiesmonitor
yaronschwimmer/dotfiles
Feb 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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