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Name's Ilan Yashuk, 20. I was born in South Israel, Beersheba. I speak, read 'n write in: Hebrew, English and Russian.

I always loved to create. I iterated through Minecraft redstone, photography, filmmaking and even beginner level carpentry. Finally, at 7th class programming got to me. It felt like unlimited power in my hands and the potential seemed limitless. I still think programming & software might be the easiest way to influence people en masse and drive a good change.

I like stories. I like complicated subjects and interacting with people. I think a man can talk his way out to the biggest league only because of the power of stories. That's why I try to take every opportunity I have to meet with people, talk with those who think different, go on hiking & travelling adventures.

My schedule's always full and even though it gets rough, my happiness comes from having a full todo list rather than completing a task. The mission is always to do most.

Education

Highschool: Very high grades on 5-unit level tests (Israel's way of dividing high school subject complexity) on Math, Physics, English and 10-unit Computer Science.

Bonus: I was part of a 3-year Computer Science Program made for periphary high school teens. I learned and practiced OS systems, C++, Python, Assembly and tackled with a lot of self-learning exercises.

Sports

Sports is a huge part of my life. My mom sent me to sport circles since I can remember. Thanks to that, I grew to be good at a huge variety of things. Also, it made sports become a part of my daily routine regardless of motivation levels or mood. Going for a run for me is exactly like brushing my teeth twice a day.

Throughout the years I went through swimming, basketball, some soccer, tennis and finally: track & field. In 2017, my brother competed at the 20th Maccabiah games and I thought to myself: "why not me?". So I joined track and field.

I trained A LOT for the next 7 years. Sometimes close to 20 hours a week. I had some ups and downs. In 2019, when I was 14, I broke the national record at the 100mH (84cm) 5 times though none of them counted as the wind was blowing too fast (sometimes only 0.1 m/s above the allowed 2.0 m/s speed). In March of '20 I got injured and didn't fully recover until my '23 season. To be honest I think this full recovery is my biggest accomplishment. Picking yourself up after such a long time of being injured and just turning the wheel: that felt awesome! I went on and broke most of my personal records in the '23 season. I ran 11.21s (100m) in Nationals and jumped 6.75m (6.80w, LJ) finishing 7th.

To summarize, I gave sports my all while being in middle to high school. I was a good student and well socialized so balancing everything was my biggest life lesson. I also gave Israel's track & field the site visuathlete.com.

My dreams and aspirations were bigger than what I've accomplished. I was on age-group national podiums lots of times but I always dreamt of being on big stages such as the European or World's Championships. I dreamt on flying abroad regularly doing the thing I love so much: jumping to a sand pit.

At the end, enlisting to the army made everything harder and I just became too busy and too caught up to advance in a thing that requires all of you and not some of you.

I still hope to be on the biggest of stages. Sports, Startups, Innovation. Something will bring me there.

Projects

I've done a lot in the past years. Vids, websites, apps & mode. You can read about it in here.