Yonatan Wilkof
Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolYonatan Wilkof is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building low-latency, agentic voice AI systems for customer support. He progressed from backend roles at startups like GameGenetics and Circ to senior engineering positions at UP42 and ultimate.ai before joining Zendesk, where he now focuses on real-time voice AI at scale. Yonatan blends a background in computer science and psychology from Tel Aviv University, informing his work on human-centered conversational agents. He’s comfortable architecting distributed backend systems and shipping production ML-enabled features, with a track record of moving from hands-on development to technical leadership. Notably, his career emphasizes solving latency and responsiveness challenges in voice interactions—critical for seamless customer experiences.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Psychology at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew, German
Stackoverflow
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spring-boot
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Github Skills (119)
java10
mode-s10
rest9
api9
rest-api9
elasticsearch9
restful9
search-engine9
spring-boot9
dynamodb8
monitoring8
opensearch8
apache-spark8
sbt8
spark8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ywilkof/spark-jobs-rest-client
Oct 2015 - Jun 2018
Fluent client for interacting with Spark Standalone Mode's Rest API for submitting, killing and monitoring the state of jobs.
Contributions:41 commits, 9 PRs, 96 pushes in 2 years 8 months
sparksqlapistandalonesparkapache-spark
ultimateai/live-challenge-template-java
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Base configuration for Ultimate live challenge based on Java
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
configurationbackendconfigjavaultimate
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