Kevin Yakar Email & Phone Number

Irvine, CA, US

Mountain View, California, US

• Worked on product features which allow users to bypass ETL processes and query business apps directly, providing real-time insights
• Designed and deployed scalable notification infrastructure which handles pipeline failures across all organizational units, leading to a dramatic reduction in response times across all teams
• Improved developer productivity and experience across the org by addressing test flakiness, reducing per-commit pipeline times by approximately 80%
• Improved security and maintainability of our pod provisioning system by implementing API endpoints to store metadata in a PSQL database instead of an unstructured NFS directory

Mountain View, California, US

• Part of the infrastructure development team focused on CI/CD
• Enhanced the main CI pipeline which reduced runtime by hours
• Migrated artifact storage from NFS to JFrog Artifactory
• Created a pipeline that provisions custom kubernetes clusters for triaging issues and testing bug fixes

• Startup which explored incorporating IoT devices into the construction process. The aim was to reduce the time it takes to survey land sites and to provide useful visualizations of the gathered metrics. By gathering.
• Main coordinator which led meetings between developers and the customer. Ensured customer satisfaction and timely completion of deliverables.
• Worked on creating the React Native app which would communicate with the robot.
• Worked on the logic for the Arduino placed on the robot - movement, object avoidance, BLE interactivity, etc.