Yotam Abramson
Data Scientist
Israel
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Top SchoolYotam Abramson is a senior data scientist and algorithms engineer with 15 years of experience building production ML and recommendation systems, currently shaping AI-driven HR tooling at Elvee. He helped evolve Taboola’s recommendation engine from its early startup days into a large-scale, productionized system and has deep expertise across deep learning, big-data pipelines, front-end serving, and backend services. As a founder and CTO he shipped consumer and enterprise products, raising multiple funding rounds and designing unique text-analysis and computer-vision algorithms for clients like Applied Materials. His academic background includes a PhD in Computer Science and Robotics (Mines Paris) and a post-doc in ground transportation, reflecting a strong foundation in formal methods—he even solved an open problem in formal languages during his MSc. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved popular projects including a GNOME clipboard extension and civic code for Open-Knesset, revealing a practical focus on UX and integration as well as core algorithms. Outside work he composes on the piano and experiments with algorithmic trading, blending analytical rigor with creative curiosity.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Doc Ground Transportation, Post-Doc Ground Transportation at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMsc Computer Science, Msc Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityPhd Computer Science and Robotics, Phd Computer Science and Robotics at Mines Paris - PSL
Hebrew, English, French, German
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Github Skills (14)
asynchronous10
git10
javascript10
shell-extension10
gnome-shell-extensions10
async10
django10
python9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
user-interface9
autocomplete8
css8
html7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Tudmotu/gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator
Feb 2014 - Oct 2022
The most popular clipboard manager for GNOME, with over 1M downloads
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 7 reviews, 239 commits in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yotam significantly contributed to the clipboard manager extension. They implemented features such as destroying the indicator on disable, adding and updating the README file to include installation instructions and an extension page link, and trimming menu item labels. Further contributions included fixing an issue related to the empty cache and implementing asynchronous I/O. The user also added a "Clear History" option and the ability to remove individual entries.
gnome-shell-extensionclipboardclipboard-historygnomegnome-shell
ofri/Open-Knesset
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
** The official repo is at https://github.com/hasadna/Open-Knesset/ . Please fork it, instead of my repo.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Yotam primarily contributed to front-end and back-end development within the open-knesset repository. Their work included adding features to the laws section, such as attaching bills to votes and implementing auto-complete functionality for bill input. The user also addressed styling issues and merged updates from the master branch, indicating involvement across different parts of the project. The changes suggest a focus on improving user interface elements and the integration of bill-related data.
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