Yiftach Kaplan
Software Engineer at Clear Street
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYiftach Kaplan is a pragmatic software engineer with over five years of recent experience and a long track record working across backend systems, telephony, and mobile platforms. Currently at Clear Street after a multi-year tenure at R3, he has contributed to the Corda open-source blockchain project by hardening node startup/shutdown behavior, improving test infrastructure and performance—demonstrating a focus on reliability in distributed systems. His background spans C++ systems and server-side engineering through roles at Moogsoft, Accenture and Nokia, and is grounded in an MS in Physics with CS from Tel Aviv University. Colleagues rely on him for resourceful, creative problem-solving that bridges low-level robustness with production-grade back-end services.
5 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Physics, Master of Science (MS) Physics at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (9)
kotlin10
testing10
distributed-ledger10
back-end-development10
corda10
distributed-ledger-technology10
java9
distributed-systems9
javas9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
corda/corda
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact in strict privacy. Corda's smart contract technology allows businesses to transact directly, with value.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 35 commits, 16 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yiftach primarily focused on improving the robustness and reliability of the Corda platform. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to node startup and shutdown, including correcting exception handling and ensuring proper resource closure. They also addressed performance issues and improved the testing infrastructure. Furthermore, the user added enhancements to the testing node driver.
interoperabledltsmart-contractprivacytransact
corda/corda-runtime-os
May 2021 - Feb 2023
Corda is a scalable, permissioned peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform that enables the building of applications that foster and deliver digital trust between parties in regulated markets.
Contributions:857 reviews, 444 commits, 543 PRs in 1 year 8 months
cordacorda-next-generationdistributed-ledgerdltkotlin
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