Summary
Yoram Hod is a seasoned senior software architect based in San Francisco with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native distributed systems for both startups and large enterprises. He has a proven track record as a backend architect and technology leader—most notably driving a 100x capacity increase in a bulk-quote service and leading a monolith-to-microservices migration at Hippo Insurance. Equally comfortable bootstrapping early-stage startups and shaping enterprise platforms, he created the Jello full-stack Java framework optimized for Google App Engine and has deep expertise across microservices, big data, APIs, and cloud platforms. Fluent in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java and systems-level languages, Yoram blends pragmatic engineering with model-driven design thinking from his SAP tenure. He is passionate about resilient, observability-first architectures and bringing data-driven DSLs and developer tooling to production systems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer science, Master of Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew