Ezer Karavani

Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Taking lead part in Yahoo stack modernization, building solution on AWS cloud replacing legacy onprem components Building cross app spring boot auto-configurable packages for aligned behavior (per TLS and mTLS across the board requirements, and CD complementary package for stateful services) Working on Change Data Capture POC for continuous transition of data from Yahoo onprem DB to AWS using Debezium and MSK (AWS managed Kafka) Entities integration with Taboola as part of handoff of native ads business

  • Verizon Media (4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Principal Software Engineer
      Jan 2021 - Sep 2021 · 9 mos

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Jul 2017 - Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Working on Video Syndication - dealing with video ingestion and lifecycle, adding features like automating video suggestion for premium content providers like Huffpost and Engadget. Working on Supply Side Platform, migrating legacy components to modern CICD and AWS infra, inspired by 12factor.net paradigm, improving dev-prod parity allowing approachable development lifecycle for previously

  • Software Engineer at AOL
    Jul 2015 - Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Part of Video Syndication platform, joined after acquisition of Vidible assisting ex-5Min. to shift to java based application. Later on moving from GWT, migrating it to AngularJS, providing server side solution, and JS data layer for the transition. The migration involved mentoring and creating a healthy culture across a dozen of distributed teams across the world(Ukraine, Israel, UK, US), providing automated tools, leveraging a full CI/CD process based on Jenkins. Within a year and a half we ended up removing the legacy codebase without any user interruption, saving tremendous costs, increasing hiring capabilities, improving the product, and modernizing our stack.

  • Software Engineer at Websense
    Sep 2011 - Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Software Engineer at Amdocs
    May 2008 - Aug 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Development of self service web portals