Yuval Shavit
Senior Software Engineer at Tulip Interfaces
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolYuval Shavit is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable backend systems and improving developer and operational workflows. He has driven architecture and delivery at companies ranging from startups like Sqrrl (acquired by Amazon) to large-scale services at AWS, where he led metering and centralized resource enforcement for CodeCatalyst. Yuval prefers the sweet spot between thoughtful design and fast shipping, focusing on backend platforms, ETL pipelines, and tools that reduce ops friction. He’s contributed to open-source infrastructure work at Klotho, including compiler and authorization components that bridge application logic and cloud infrastructure. Based in Somerville, MA, Yuval pairs deep systems experience with a humanities background in Classics, a combination that surfaces in clear cross-team requirements gathering and pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, BA, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Cornell University
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Github contributions (5)
yshavit/mdq
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
like jq but for Markdown: find specific elements in a md doc
Contributions:5 releases, 15 reviews, 367 PRs in 9 months
jqmarkdownmdquerying
yshavit/effes2
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:80 pushes, 10 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 6 months
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