Yuval Reiss

Yuval Reiss

Backend engineer on the Platform team at Riverside, Tel Aviv. I build products end to end and ship my own on the side.

Things I've built

Side project, live

Gear Finder

Pickup research for the guitar you already have.

Tell it what's in your guitar and what's bugging you, and it suggests pickups that fix it. It covers 1,365 pickups from 29 makers, and every spec links to its source. A TypeScript ingestion pipeline pulls specs, measurements, videos and prices from 15+ manufacturer and community sources into Postgres.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Zod
Visit thegearfinder.net

Side project, live

The Pantry

Cook what you have.

Pick the ingredients you have and get recipes that fit, with automatic swaps for anything missing. It has 10,000+ recipes and substitutes for 1,221 ingredients, plus accounts, saved searches and a tracked sign-up funnel.

  • Next.js
  • tRPC
  • Prisma
  • Auth.js
  • Claude API
Visit thepantry.recipes

Lead engineer, 2023–2025

Bandmates

Find the people you were meant to play with.

A social network that matches musicians nearby by instrument, taste and ambition, with real-time private chat and video profiles. I led engineering: the matching algorithm, location queries in PostGIS, a type-safe tRPC API and a Socket.io chat server. It started as a Flutter mobile app. Performance work raised engagement 30%.

  • Next.js
  • tRPC
  • PostgreSQL + PostGIS
  • Prisma
  • Socket.io
  • Redis
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Flutter
Visit bandmates.online

Experience

  1. Riverside

    Backend Engineer, Platform

    2025–now

    • Build core TypeScript/Next.js microservices (users, accounts, invites, features, payments) for scale and data integrity.
    • Design and run AI agents that audit production data, catch cross-service bugs and report platform health.
    • Architected safe, high-throughput batched migration tooling for large production MongoDB collections.
    • Own the AI interview platform used to hire engineers: Claude agents, automated scoring, isolated sandboxes.
    • Present Platform work to C-level leadership and the company at Demo Days; represent Riverside at tech conferences.

  2. Bandmates

    Lead Software Engineer

    2023–2025

    • Led engineering end to end and designed the algorithm matching musicians by location, skill level and taste.
    • Grew it from a Flutter and Firebase app into a Next.js, tRPC and PostGIS platform with Socket.io real-time chat.
    • Worked with design and product on performance improvements that raised engagement 30%.

  3. Sisense

    Software Engineer and Scrum Master

    2020–2023

    • Delivered multi-tenancy, usage analytics and JWT/SSO/OIDC auth across Node.js APIs and React/Angular apps.
    • Integrated RabbitMQ and Zookeeper into the distributed system to improve scalability.
    • As Scrum Master from 2022, ran sprints and aligned the roadmap with product and business stakeholders.

  4. Capital One

    iOS Developer Intern

    2018–2019

    • Rewrote the iOS app's payments API layer in Swift and built the cloud API for canceling scheduled payments.
    • Developed a new push notification system for the iOS apps in Java and Swift.

Education and service

2020

M.S. Computer Science

University of Maryland

GPA 3.9. Graduate lecturer, and head TA overseeing about 30 TAs in the largest course on campus.

2019

B.S. Computer Science

University of Maryland

Dean's List. Co-chair of the College of CMNS student ambassadors.

2012–2015

First Sergeant

IDF, Givati Reconnaissance

Led 20+ soldiers and was recognized for leadership. Now a platoon commander in the reserves.

Off the clock

Licensed Israeli tour guide

Licensed since 2024. A site for my tours is on the way.

Guitarist

I play guitar in a few local bands.

English and Hebrew

Native in both.