Yoav Ossia is a senior software development engineer with over 25 years of experience designing and shipping robust systems across storage, virtualization, and JVM runtime technologies. He combines hands-on low- and high-level software design with team leadership and product stewardship, from proposals and specifications to implementation, testing, and support. A co-founder at Zadara and a long-standing SDE at Microsoft, Yoav has deep expertise in cloud storage, distributed algorithms, and automated memory management in Java. He contributes to notable open-source work such as the .NET Power BI SDK—adding core APIs for refresh scheduling and parameter handling—demonstrating an ability to bridge enterprise integrations and developer tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who scales ideas into production while keeping a keen eye on operational constraints and documentation. Based in Israel, he pairs academic rigor (M.Sc. in CS) with a track record of leading engineering teams through complex productizations.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc, Computer Science at The Hebrew University
Welcome to the .NET developer community for Power BI. Here you will find resources for the .NET SDKs for Power BI Embedded V2.0.0
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Yoav primarily contributed to the .NET SDK for Power BI Embedded V2, with changes involving core API functionalities. Their work included merging pull requests to integrate new features like the `SetParameters` API and optional refresh requests. They also made documentation updates to highlight essential operational details and restrictions, like the 30-minute delay needed after connection changes, before data refresh. The user also introduced the APIs for `GetRefreshSchedule` and `UpdateRefreshSchedule` for both regular and DirectQuery datasets.
A Power BI Embedded sample that shows you how to integrate a Power BI report into your own web app
Contributions:6 commits, 18 pushes in 21 days
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Yoav Ossia - Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft