Yisrael Union
Lead Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolYisrael Union is a lead software engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience building scalable web systems on the JVM, specializing in Scala and functional programming. He has progressed from data analyst to CTO-leading developer at Kars4Kids and now leads engineering efforts at Disney Streaming, blending technical leadership with active coding. Yisrael excels at hiring and mentoring teams, establishing delivery processes, and shipping cloud-native services in production. Currently completing an MS in Computer Science at Penn, he pairs formal graduate study with pragmatic, long-term stewardship of nonprofit and enterprise platforms. A detail that sets him apart is his dual background in rigorous Talmudic study and modern software engineering, which informs a disciplined, people-focused leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Talmudic Studies, Master's degree Talmudic Studies at Beth Medrash GovohaRabbinical College of Long IslandMaster's Degree Computer and Information Technology Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer and Information Technology Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Hebrew, Yiddish
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Github Skills (172)
lettuce10
continuation10
computational-physics10
reverse-proxy10
redis-sentinel10
computer-architecture10
http10
databases10
websocket10
security10
effects10
azure-redis-cache10
kong10
serverless10
computational-biology10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
yisraelU/smithy4s
Mar 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 126 pushes, 45 branches in 2 years 7 months
smithy4s
yisraelU/redis4cats
May 2024 - Mar 2025
:bookmark: Redis client built on top of Cats Effect, Fs2 and Lettuce
Contributions:1 PR, 89 pushes, 43 branches in 10 months
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