Summary
Yohanan Radchenko is a software engineer with nine years of experience building web applications across Flask, Vue, Ruby on Rails, React, and modern JavaScript stacks, currently engineering at Amazon in New York. He transitioned into tech after a successful career as a special education teacher, bringing a pragmatic, user-focused approach to problem solving and accessible product design. At RippleMatch he helped scale early-career recruiting software that automates matching and coaching, and he’s comfortable shipping end-to-end features from API to UI. Known for a strong learning orientation, he continually picks up new languages and best practices and mentors others—rooted in his prior teaching experience. This combination of classroom-honed empathy and production engineering gives him a knack for turning complex requirements into practical, inclusive solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, English/Language Arts Teacher Education, 3.68, Bachelor's degree, English/Language Arts Teacher Education, 3.68 at Kean University
Special Education and Teaching, 4.0, Special Education and Teaching, 4.0 at Rutgers University - Newark
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at App Academy
Russian, English