Yitz Willroth
Software Team Lead at Insomnia Cookies
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYitz Willroth is a Director of Engineering and seasoned backend software leader with over a decade of experience modernizing SaaS systems and leading engineering teams from founding builds to scale. He has progressed from founding engineer roles through principal and lead engineering positions to his current leadership post, bringing pragmatic API and integrations expertise honed at companies like PhoneBurner, Parking Mobility, and ScholarPath. Based in the New York City area, he pairs hands-on technical craft with people-first management—mentoring, speaking, and guiding developer bootcamps while organizing regional PHP meetups. Outside of day-to-day work he blends software and community leadership in unique ways: he’s active as a coder and rabbi, founded ShorePHP, and contributes as a mentor and consultant, signaling a rare combination of technical depth and pastoral mentorship.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Information Systems Web Systems Specialization, Master of Science Information Systems Web Systems Specialization at New Jersey Institute of Technology
object-oriented php, javascript, java (core), sql - pl/pgsql, python, sql - t-sql, perl, sql - pl/sql, ruby, go, scala
Github Skills (57)
dependency-manager10
application-framework10
web-application10
foundation10
laravel10
php10
package-manager10
composer10
expressive10
desktop-application9
laravel-framework9
linux8
windows8
nodejs8
meta8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coderabbi/phpumoji
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
PHPUnit Emoji Result Printer
Contributions:5 releases, 53 commits, 17 PRs in 11 days
emojiphpphpunitprinter
coderabbi/virtuoso
Jun 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years
composersphpcomposecomposablecomposer
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