Yaniv Okev
Senior Engineering Manager at Houzz
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYaniv Okev is a Senior Engineering Manager with a decade of software experience and over five years leading and scaling full-stack teams in growth-driven environments. He currently leads Payments, Reports, and Accounting teams at Houzz, delivering products from Smart Estimates and Online Payments to Automated Invoicing and QuickBooks sync that directly impact revenue and operational efficiency. Yaniv combines a strong product mindset with hands-on technical roots—having progressed from full-stack development to shaping payment and financial tooling—so he balances strategic vision with engineering execution. He emphasizes engineering excellence, team ownership, and global collaboration to turn complex financial data into usable insights for professionals. Prior roles building large-scale front-end and full-stack systems (including work on Google Trends projects) give him deep experience in high-traffic, data-driven applications. He is based in Israel and known for shipping pragmatic, secure solutions that simplify finance workflows for end users.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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83reached
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Github Skills (20)
trend10
elixir8
api-server7
react6
meteor6
phoenix-framework6
angularjs6
jquery6
javascript6
realtime6
flask5
flarum4
html-form4
web-framework3
sendgrid3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yanivok/warehouse
Nov 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
yanivok/my-tribute
Jul 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
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