Yair Chuchem
Co-founder at Sound Radix
Israel
Summary
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RockstarYair Chuchem is a seasoned co-founder and software engineer with 14 years of experience building production-grade systems and leading a startup, Sound Radix, since 2011. His background spans roles at Google and financial and storage-focused firms, with hands-on work in algorithms, verification software, and low-level graphics and audio tooling. An active open-source contributor in the Haskell ecosystem, he has improved influential projects like hlint and the lens library, demonstrating a taste for correctness, abstraction, and maintainability. He blends systems-level problem solving (OpenGL/FreeType tweaks, Python/C verification tools) with a product-driven founder mindset, and is based in Israel.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (40)
code-optimization10
traversal10
fonts10
postgresql10
freetype10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
syntax10
lenses10
sql10
ghc10
functional-programming10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ekmett/lens
Dec 2012 - Jan 2021
Lenses, Folds, and Traversals - Join us on web.libera.chat #haskell-lens
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yair primarily contributed to the `ekmett/lens` repository by modifying core Haskell code related to lenses, prisms, and traversals. Their work involved implementing new features like `filteredBy` and `reviewing`, generalizing existing types and modifying internal modules. Furthermore, the user addressed existing issues and removed unnecessary dependencies, demonstrating a focus on code maintainability and enhancement of the lens library.
haskell
ndmitchell/hlint
Jan 2018 - Mar 2022
Haskell source code suggestions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 30 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yair primarily contributed to the Haskell project by implementing new features and refining existing functionalities of the HLint tool. Their work included adding new command-line options, implementing fixities for operators from the `lattices` package, and modifying the handling of language pragmas to improve code analysis and suggestions. They also updated the `.ghci` configuration for better UNIX environment support.
haskell
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