Yevgeny Friedland

Yevgeny Friedland has a diverse work experience in the field of technology. Yevgeny started their career as a Java developer at Israel Direct Insurance in 2011 and then worked as a Full Stack developer at M.G. Soft, where they developed web applications using Java-based technologies.

From 2013 to 2014, Yevgeny worked as a Release Engineer at Amdocs, where they played a key role in introducing Continuous Integration to the company's mainline product. Yevgeny reverse-engineered and rewrote the build system using structured Maven projects.

As a Scala developer at Netapp, working as a contractor from M.G. Soft, they were responsible for developing Netapp storage solution for the Amazon cloud platform. Yevgeny utilized Scala as the main language and replaced SVN VCS with Git DVCS for increased productivity.

At Playtech, Yevgeny worked as a Scala Developer in the infrastructure team, developing an innovative gaming platform. Yevgeny used Scala and Akka to build a distributed system to support real-time transactions for games.

At NAYA Technologies, Yevgeny worked as a Data Engineer and focused on the cloud migration of a major ad campaign company. Yevgeny redesigned and implemented multiple parts of legacy code, resolved performance bottlenecks, and containerized and moved infrastructure into Kubernetes.

From 2020 to 2023, Yevgeny worked at EPAM Systems as a DevOps Engineer, where they worked on a data analytics runtime platform for a major US retailer. Yevgeny designed and implemented infrastructure to improve Apache Spark usability on top of Kubernetes using ArgoCD.

Currently, Yevgeny is working at Didomi as a Senior Data Engineer, starting from 2023.

Yevgeny Friedland pursued their higher education at The Open University of Israel. From 2011 onwards, they studied towards a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science, specializing in Systems Applications and Economics. The specific field of study during their program is not mentioned. In addition to their formal education, Yevgeny obtained a certification in Principles of Reactive Programming in June 2015 from Coursera.