Gal Yardeni
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGal Yardeni is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of professional experience building backend systems and continuous delivery tooling, currently working on Netflix’s Editorial Catalog team after several years on Netflix’s Spinnaker/Managed Delivery platform. He has deep hands-on expertise in CI/CD, backend APIs and deployment automation—evidenced by notable open-source contributions to Spinnaker components like gate and igor that added CI entry points, build-output endpoints, and richer build metadata. Prior roles at VMware, LivePerson and Amdocs reflect a broad backend and cloud-native stack (Golang, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS) and ownership across architecture, testing and production delivery. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex integration needs into pragmatic service-level changes that materially improve developer workflows and deployment observability.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
api-rest10
docker10
apidoc10
api-design10
groovy10
restful-api10
dockers10
java10
cicd10
javas10
api10
spring-boot10
rest-api10
spinnaker10
spock8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/igor
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Integration with Jenkins and Git for Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 9 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Gal contributed to the development of the CI (Continuous Integration) view within the Spinnaker platform, focusing on integrating with Jenkins and Git. They added new endpoints for retrieving build output and extended the existing CI build service to include additional fields like build number and commit ID, enhancing the CI view. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the Docker monitoring feature, adding metadata such as build number, commit ID, date, and branch to docker images. The user also modified the project's test files.
jenkins
spinnaker/gate
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Spinnaker API Gateway
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Gal primarily contributed to the Spinnaker API Gateway, focusing on backend enhancements and additions. They implemented new features such as a CI entry point and build output hooks, modifying the CiService and CiController. Further contributions included modifications to the ConstraintStatus model and the addition of a new endpoint for Slack callbacks, showcasing their ability to work with various aspects of the backend infrastructure. The commits also included changes in the IgorService and related configurations.
api-gateway
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