Yuri Abaev
Team Lead at Flare
Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYuri Abaev is a seasoned software engineering leader with nine years of experience building and shipping backend microservices and user-facing portals, currently leading teams at Flare. He combines hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, distributed systems (Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, Elastic), and container orchestration with a people-first approach to team management and agile delivery. At ZOOZ (PayU) he moved from backend engineer to team lead, running sprints, onboarding hires, and maintaining production on-call responsibilities for payment-related infrastructure. Known for continuous self-learning, he runs knowledge-sharing sessions and team-lead forums to raise engineering quality across teams. Based in Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, Israel, he pairs strong communication skills with a practical focus on reliability and observability in complex, data-intensive systems. A former Flash developer turned cloud-native engineer, he brings both legacy and modern-stack perspective to system design and migration challenges.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, Russian, English
Github Skills (19)
dredd5
api5
sjs-team5
validation5
api-blueprint5
testing5
http-api5
unit-testing4
language-agnostic4
integration-testing4
test-framework3
openapi3
swagger3
test-runner3
cli-app3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
PayU/envboss
Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:67 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
apiaryio/dredd
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Language-agnostic HTTP API Testing Tool
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
openapi-validationagnostictest-runnerapi-testingopenapi
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