Summary
Yifat Aetzad is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building recommendation and generative AI features for YouTube and current work on AI marketing tools at Google Labs. She holds a master’s in computer science from UC Berkeley and a dual bachelor’s in CS and economics, with research in word-embedding semantics, NLP, and MOOC learner analytics that produced peer-reviewed publications. Her background spans large-scale infrastructure, production ML, and educational technology—she has shipped systems at Google and Salesforce and taught introductory CS at multiple institutions. Comfortable moving between research and production, she brings both rigorous data-driven methods and hands-on engineering to product problems. Outside of work she practices yoga, salsa, and cooks, reflecting a creative, disciplined approach she applies to both code and craft.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Hebrew, Spanish