Yoav Shapira
Senior Director Of Engineering at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYoav Shapira is a senior engineering executive and serial entrepreneur with 23 years of experience building product and engineering organizations from startup day zero to public companies and multi-billion dollar scale. Currently a Senior Director of Engineering at Meta working on the Metaverse after leading teams across Instagram and geospatial infrastructure, he combines product instincts with deep operational experience. He was the first technical hire at CarGurus and an early engineering leader at HubSpot, where he built cross-functional teams spanning development, design, QA and DevOps that scaled to hundreds of employees. Yoav also led product and engineering at Jana to extend internet access in emerging markets, and today advises, invests in, and mentors startups across accelerators and venture firms. An active open-source contributor, he’s made maintenance and modernization contributions to notable projects like Apache log4j1, demonstrating attention to technical debt and long-term reliability. Based in Mountain View, he pairs a hands-on engineering background (MIT, multiple MS degrees) with a knack for pragmatic scaling and occasional appetite for adventure racing.
22 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS Engineering Management, MS Engineering Management at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySM System Design and Management, SM System Design and Management at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMS Computer Systems Engineering, MS Computer Systems Engineering at Boston University
Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
licensing10
log4j10
java10
rest9
debug9
versioning9
debugging9
api-design8
tornado6
macos6
svn6
supervisord6
python6
ruby6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/logging-log4j1
Jan 2004 - Nov 2006
Apache log4j1
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Yoav primarily focused on migrating files to the Apache License 2.0 and updating outdated code to address deprecation warnings. They also added the TRACE level to the Level class and modified Category to add trace() methods. Additional contributions involved fixing bugs and adding/removing files from documentation.
log4jjavaloggingapache
YoavShapira/yoavshapira.github.io
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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