Yoav Shapira

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I am a serial entrepreneur, engineer, product guy, and executive with a passion for…

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    Techstars

    - Present 12 years 8 months

    Science and Technology

    Techstars provides seed funding from over 75 top venture capital firms and angel investors who are vested in the success of your startup, as well as intense mentorship from hundreds of the best entrepreneurs in the world.

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  • Apache Logging (Log4j)

    - Present

    Apache log4j is an Apache Software Foundation Project and developed by a dedicated team of Committers of the Apache Software Foundation. For more info, please see The Apache Software Foundation. Apache log4j is also part of a project which is known as Apache Logging.

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  • Apache Tomcat

    - Present

    Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed under the Java Community Process.

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  • Apache Incubator

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    The Incubator project is the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing to join Apache enter through the Incubator.

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Languages

  • Hebrew

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

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  • French

    Elementary proficiency

  • Italian

    Elementary proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

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  • Apache Software Foundation

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    * Member of the Apache Software Foundation. Members are a small group of peer-elected leaders who are also legal shareholders in the Foundation, and are responsible for its overall development, growth, and management. * Committer and project management committee (PMC) member on the Apache Tomcat project. The leading servlet container, Tomcat is used by numerous Fortune 1000 companies for mission-critical web application as well as internal research and development. I have been a contributor to…

    * Member of the Apache Software Foundation. Members are a small group of peer-elected leaders who are also legal shareholders in the Foundation, and are responsible for its overall development, growth, and management. * Committer and project management committee (PMC) member on the Apache Tomcat project. The leading servlet container, Tomcat is used by numerous Fortune 1000 companies for mission-critical web application as well as internal research and development. I have been a contributor to the Tomcat project since 2001. * Committer for the Log4j toolkit and a member of the Logging Services PMC. * I was involved (committing code, reviewing, helping) with numerous Java libraries and other projects under the Jakarta umbrella, and I am also a member of that Jakarta PMC. * Provided guidance on public relations issues of interest to the Foundation as a member of its Public Relations Committee. * Mentored new projects into the Apache Software Foundation via the Incubator mechanism, and I serve on the Incubator's Project Management Committee. * Among the projects I helped in the Incubator: ** Apache Solr: an enterprise search server on top of Lucene, with XML, HTTP, and JSON APIs. ** Apache Lokahi: a modular, web-based framework for the management of application servers. ** Apache OFBiz: open-source enterprise automation. ** Apache Qpid: multiple language implementations of the Advanced Messaged Queuing Protocol (AMQP). ** Apache Abdera: a functionally-complete, high-performance implementation of the IETF Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) specifications. * won the inaugural Apache / Covalent Open Source Leaders of Tomorrow award in 2005. * Mentored multiple student participants working on Apache projects in the Google Summer of Code initiative. * My Apache activities are done as an independent volunteer, not sponsored by any company, but always with the consent of my full-time employer.

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