Founder at IllumiTacit and Fensak (Staff level Startup Engineer with 10+ years of experience)

Yori is an experienced software engineer passionate about building tools to make developers’ lives easier. Currently Yori is working on IllumiTacit, a service that helps users reuse and share LLM prompts across a wide range of apps such as Microsoft Office 365 and Google Chrome. He is also working on Fensak, a service that allows using branch protection in GitOps workflows without compromise.

Yori was previously an early employee (employee #7) at Gruntwork where he led many key initiatives in the company including the Reference Architecture, Gruntwork Pipelines, EKS and Kubernetes modules, and numerous enhancements to Terragrunt.

Prior to joining Gruntwork, he was a founding team member (employee #4) at Captricity (dba Vidado), a company building a secure digital automation solution for enterprises operating in highly regulated industries. During his time there, he built out Captricity’s core digitization platform from a research prototype. He eventually became specialized in Site Reliability Engineering and successfully led the team to materialize a 10x improvement in the throughput of the digitization platform.

In his free time, he likes to tinker with his home datacenter (comprised of a mix of SBCs and traditional desktops) and scout for new technologies to learn (currently SLSA and supply chain security).