Yaron Koren grew up in Israel and the United States. He has been a professional programmer since 1998. He has been doing MediaWiki development since 2006, and MediaWiki consulting since 2007. He currently runs the MediaWiki consulting company WikiWorks, and, via WikiWorks, the MediaWiki-based wiki farm Referata.
Before getting involved with MediaWiki, Yaron worked at a variety of internet-related startups in New York City, and one bank. He has a degree in Computer Science from MIT.
Yaron enjoys playing music, and can play the guitar, bass guitar, clarinet and saxophone. He also likes jogging and cross-country skiing.
Yaron lives in New York City with his wife.
You can read his homepage for more (but not that much more) information.