Robert Israel
Director Of Software Engineering at Yahoo
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorRobert Israel is a seasoned technology leader and Director of Software Engineering with 8 years in senior management and over two decades of hands-on Unix and infrastructure experience. Based in Ashburn, VA, he leads cross-functional teams at Yahoo overseeing source code management, artifact and container storage, ML infrastructure, operating systems, and Atlassian tooling. His strengths include designing distributed server architectures, centralizing Unix administration, and building reliable CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Screwdriver, and GitHub Enterprise on AWS. Known for pragmatic "get-stuff-done" execution, he blends deep systems expertise with operator-focused tooling to maximize admin productivity and platform reliability. An early career foundation in large-scale AOL operations and even a stint directing production shoots reveal a capacity to manage complex technical and logistical challenges under tight constraints.
9 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (30)
json-editor9
portal8
react-forms7
signer6
oauth5
questions-and-answers5
react5
log4j5
hsm5
osgi5
javascript4
json4
security4
system-analysis4
form-validation4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/bgobjc
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
rgisrael/test
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 branches in 2 months
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