# yay.dev — Doron Tsur > Doron Tsur is a Platform & Distributed Systems Architect with 15 years of > experience building the infrastructure other teams rely on: large scale > search, data pipelines, event driven systems, and the infrastructure as code > underneath them. He runs an independent consulting practice (yay.dev) and is > a partner at Codo. ## About - Role: Platform & Distributed Systems Architect - Practice: yay.dev (independent consulting), Founder & Principal Consultant - Partner & Senior System Architect at Codo - Based in Israel. Works end to end: architecture, the hard performance core, and the operations to run it. Test driven by default. - Core stack: TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenSearch / Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL. - Focus areas: large scale search, data pipelines and change data capture, event driven and distributed systems, platform/infrastructure engineering. ## Pages - [Home](https://yay.dev/): overview, services, and stack. - [Résumé](https://yay.dev/resume): full experience (Codo, yay.dev practice with engagements, HoneyBook, Cloudinary, Tikal, Bit, Wix), skills, education. - [Talks](https://yay.dev/talks): conference talks — "TestContainers: Real Integration Tests Without the Pain" (NodeTLV 2025) and "Are we Deno yet?" (NodeTLV 2021). - [Notes](https://yay.dev/notes): writing on platform engineering, distributed systems, search and data infrastructure. - [Contact](https://yay.dev/contact): contact form and links. ## Contact - Contact form: https://yay.dev/contact - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doron-tsur - GitHub: https://github.com/qballer - WhatsApp: https://wa.me/972546342237 Full version: https://yay.dev/llms-full.txt