Youval Vaknin
Director Of Product Engineering at Netlify
Israel
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Top SchoolYouval Vaknin is a product-focused engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling mobile and web products, now serving as Director of Product Engineering at Netlify. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering with strong people and delivery skills, having led teams from early-stage startups (Hello Heart, Stackbit) to larger platforms. As a founder and early product lead, he shipped HIPAA-compliant mobile health apps used by F500 customers and transformed B2C products into B2B2C offerings. His background spans technical leadership, customer success, and embedded systems—evidence of both broad technical depth and customer-facing empathy. A former IDF artillery officer turned engineering manager, he brings operational discipline and a bias for measurable outcomes to product roadmaps and team development. Based in Israel, he is known for quickly learning new domains and turning complex requirements into pragmatic, high-impact releases.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, YaffoHigh school diploma Mathematics and Computer Science Biology and Literature, High school diploma Mathematics and Computer Science Biology and Literature at makif gimel
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (116)
drone-ci10
netlify10
static-site10
astrojs10
pie-chart10
netlify-functions10
continuous-testing9
continuous-delivery9
linux9
gatsby9
shell9
hugo9
visual-editor9
hexo9
bash9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NeuraLabs/react_native_sample_app
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:7 PRs, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
NeuraLabs/cordova-neura-plugin
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:15 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 11 months
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