# Yair Temkin

> SWE II @ Coinbase | KP Fellow 2023 | Prev @ Figma, Lyft, Google & JPMC

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yair

My name is Yair Temkin and I am from Miami, Florida. I am a graduate of the University of Florida, with a bachelors in Computer Science. I aspire to use my software engineering skills to solve complex problems that impact my community and people across the world.

I am always open to supporting UF students and Hispanics in STEM, so please reach out :)


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## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Coinbase
Jan 2026 – Present | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Coinbase
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Core Infra - Routing

### Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Vice President of Technology @ UF Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Gainesville, Florida, United States
* Pioneered a new UI/UX Design team, utilizing knowledge gained from my Figma internship, to design clean UI/UX experiences for our Website and Mobile Apps
* Founded SHPE UF Android and Apple Mobile development teams, building native apps of our website, and teaching students Swift and Kotlin, receiving SHPE national org attention.  
* Organized the revamp design and implementation of our website SHPEUF.com
* Hosted a 12 hour hackathon for 100+ students with 10+ workshops led by my SHPE directors and 5+ student orgs across UF
* Oversaw the creation of two AV teams that constructed vehicles for various tests using AI.
* Led over 70 students engineers in challenging projects to enhance their skills and prepare them for internships/full-time

### Scrum Master @ UF Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Gainesville, Florida, United States

### Senior Software Engineering Director @ UF Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Gainesville, Florida, United States

### Software Engineering Director @ UF Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Gainesville, Florida, United States
● Facilitate the organization and maintenance of SHPE UF’s website
● Use React.js to maintain the website and React.js Native to create a mobile application of SHPE UF's website

### Teaching Assistant for Interactive Modeling & Animation @ UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Gainesville, Florida, United States

### Teaching Assistant for Data Strucutres and Algorithms @ UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Gainesville, Florida, United States

### Teaching Assistant for Programming Fundementals 1 @ UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Gainesville, Florida, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Figma
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Feedback team - Comments

### Software Engineer Intern @ Lyft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Competitive intelligence

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Google Hotels

I made a button

### Software Engineer Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Tampa, Florida, United States

### Google Software Product Sprint / Traveller @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Traveller - JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS

● Developed a vacation planning website that allows users to plan trips to several popular cities.
● Implemented Google Maps and Directions APIs to show popular locations in a selected city and optimize the best route to get to favorited locations.
● Applied proper industry practices such as conducting code reviews and employing code to a repository.

https://spring21-sps-34.uc.r.appspot.com/

### Summer Camp Counselor @ Dave & Mary Alper Jewish Community Center Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Miami, Florida, United States


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Florida


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yair-temkin

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Last updated: 2026-04-13