Summary
Yuri Klayman is a pragmatic software engineer with 11+ years of hands-on consulting and product experience, currently building backend systems at Droxi from Israel. Comfortable across Java and JavaScript and fluent in Python and C#, he excels at pragmatic architecture, performance tuning, and migrating complex systems (including Spring Boot to GraalVM). His background spans research-grade bioinformatics work—mapping NGS reads and modeling lncRNA expression—and production engineering for high-scale serverless and JVM-based systems, giving him a rare blend of scientific rigor and operational practicality. A non-dogmatic collaborator and mentor, he consistently picks up new languages and tooling quickly (having explored TypeScript, Haskell and Scala) and prefers solutions that are appropriate rather than maximal. Notably, his career includes both low-level agent work and cloud-native serverless architectures, signaling versatility from native integration to modern cloud platforms.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Master's degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Tel Aviv University
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, summa cum laude, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, summa cum laude at Holon Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew, Russian