Yonatan Bergman
Co-Founder & CTO at Empathy
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolYonatan Bergman is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder & CTO with 14 years of experience building products and scaling engineering teams across startups and global enterprises. He has led engineering organizations at Empathy, WeWork, PayPal and eBay, growing a Tel Aviv R&D center from a handful to 250 engineers and managing cross-border teams in Singapore and New York. Equally comfortable in hands-on technical roles and executive leadership, he blends product-minded engineering with an eye for design and a focus on team culture and technical excellence. At Empathy he applies technology to sensitive, real-world problems—helping families navigate loss—demonstrating a rare combination of technical rigor and human-centered mission. A former military engineering manager, he brings experience in complex, data-driven systems and disciplined software craftsmanship to fast-moving product environments. Outside of work he centers his life on family, which influences his collaborative, empathetic leadership style.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ohel-Shem
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
1,301reputation
57kreached
8answers
5questions
google-app-engine
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Github Skills (62)
recipe10
cookbook9
migration9
google-app-engine9
linux9
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windows9
raycast9
db-migrate9
cycle9
migrate9
mruby9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rot-13/mokojin-ios
Mar 2015 - Aug 2020
Tekken Time for iOS
Contributions:6 PRs, 59 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 5 months
swiftiostekken
iic-ninjas/mokojin
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:32 PRs, 81 pushes, 28 branches in 23 days
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