Summary
Yael Namen is a Senior Software Engineer with 17+ years of experience spanning full-stack web development, backend/system design, and increasingly, DevOps and infrastructure engineering. She has led and supported large-scale data and deployment ecosystems—recently building and operating multi-region MySQL workloads with Vitess at HubSpot and shaping Kubernetes-based infrastructure and GitLab-based CI/CD at Wizards of the Coast. While her roots are in software development, she excels at turning hard, detail-heavy problems into reliable, scalable solutions and enjoys mentoring junior engineers and driving improvements that benefit the whole team. Her experience covers healthcare IT, gaming, and enterprise software, with hands-on work from ETL pipelines to deployment tooling and automation. Based in Renton, WA, Yael is currently applying her breadth of knowledge at CRIO while looking to re-focus on frontend or full-stack work, bringing a pragmatic, customer- and team-first mindset. She combines a solid technical toolkit with a habit of turning operational gains into product value.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Jewish/Judaic Studies, Bachelor's degree, Jewish/Judaic Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison