Yossi Hertzberg

yossi.hertzberg@gmail.com

Hi! I'm a software engineer, with experience in computer/network security and cloud infrastructure technologies.

Please feel free to reach out to me at my email above or through one of these sites:

Experience

Software Engineer

Juniper Networks
  • Member of the Sky Advanced Threat Protections team.
  • Created cloud based network security solutions.
  • Implemented cloud microservices using AWS's EC2, S3, Elasticache technologies.
  • Gained experience writing production level code in Go and Python.
    • October 2019 - Present

    Undergraduate Head Tutor

    UCSB Computer Science Department
  • Tutored ~60 students each school quarter in lower division CS courses (both C++ and Python)
  • Selected among 20+ volunteer tutors for a paid tutor position after my first quarter teaching
  • Served as head tutor, working directly with the professor to help create study guides
    • January 2018 - March 2019

    Android App Development Internship

    ThrowMotion
  • Worked at a small tech start up which is building the first "live action" tabletop cricket game
  • Debugged, tested, and added functionality / new game modes to the ThrowMotion Android App
    • June 2018 - September 2018

    Projects

    SentiTweet

    Web App completed in a team of four
    Live Site
    GitHub Repo
  • App to help with bipolar disorder through mood tracking
  • Runs sentiment analysis on user’s tweets, visualizes feelings and mood swings through graphs, and offers resources mental health
  • Uses Python backend (flask) and bootstrap frontend frameworks

    • Check Yo' Shelf

    Android App completed in a team of five
    GitHub Repo
  • App for library employees to check shelves of the UCSB library for misplaced books,  notifying the user when a misplaced book is found
  • Utilized Google’s Android Text Vision API to determine which books were out of place 

    • Education

    University of California, Santa Barbara

    Bachelor of Science
    Computer Science

    GPA: 3.9 -- High Honors

    Regents Scholar and member of the Engineering Honors Program.

    September 2015 - June 2019

    Fremont High School

    GPA: 4.0

    Valedictorian and member of the varsity tennis team.

    August 2011 - June 2015

    Skills

    Programming Languages & Tools
      • Experience with Golang, Java, Python, C/C++, Git/GitHub, Multiple AWS Technologies
    Skills / Courses
    • Computer Security
    • Computer Networking
    • Machine Learning Basics
    • Human Computer Interaction (with Responsive Webpage Design)
    • Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms
    • Automata and Formal Languages

    Interests

    My interests outside of computer science include mountain biking, playing guitar and ukulele, and surfing, which I picked up while at UCSB.

    I also spend lots of time with my two dogs, Iggy and Lexi.

    Awards & Milestones

    • Software Engineer (Cloud Based Network Security Services) -- 2019 to Present
    • Graudated with High Honors -- UCSB -- 2019
    • Regents Scholarship -- UCSB
    • AP Scholar with Distinction
    • Valedictorian -- Senior year of high school
    • Engineering Writing Award -- Engineering Writing Department at UCSB
    • Volunteer Service Award -- 200+ Hours of Community Service -- 2015