# Yariv Kaynan

> Senior Software Engineer xDropbox xNotion

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yariv

Platform-focused software engineer with 8+ years of experience leading
high-impact infrastructure initiatives across observability, CI/CD, and
developer productivity. Known for unblocking complex technical migrations,
reducing cloud and tooling costs at scale, and building low-maintenance
systems that help teams ship reliably and quickly.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Notion
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led technical execution of the observability migration from Datadog to Honeycomb, enabling high-cardinality telemetry while reversing unsustainable tooling cost growth.
Designed and implemented a span-attribute-based metrics model to align with Honeycomb’s event-based pricing, avoiding the need for a parallel metrics ingestion pipeline.
Optimized CI and GitHub Actions workflows, improving build times by ~2× through improved Docker caching and faster build infrastructure.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Apiiro
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Reduced security risk across the container ecosystem by improving base image hygiene and vulnerability remediation workflows.
Improved Docker build performance and reliability through caching and workflow optimizations.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led engineers responsible for CI Kubernetes infrastructure, reducing AWS costs by approximately $3M annually.
Drove the migration from Phabricator to GitHub, significantly improving developer experience through native integrations and CLI-level parity.

### Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
Split Audit Log functionality into a dedicated service, improving system reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

### Junior Software Engineer @ SleepRate
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Designed and implemented major components of the Android app, significantly reducing crashes and improving customer satisfaction.

### Security Analyst @ Check Point Software Technologies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Israel
Set up virtual environments to analyze application specific network packets.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yariv-kaynan-53256141

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Last updated: 2026-03-30