Ruth is the Founder and CEO of 'Shecodes; – Israel's community of female software developers. Setting a goal of reaching 50% of female software developers. She codes; and holds ~200 events every month in over 50 branches across Israel in all the Universities and in major tech hubs and companies such as Google, IBM, Amazon, and Intel. Over the past year alone she codes; and has helped over ~700 women join and advance in their technology careers. Polachek is also the CEO & Co-Founder of LessTests, a Tel-Aviv-based biotechnology company aimed at increasing the number of tests worldwide and enabling a new normal. Its mission is to help the world live alongside COVID-19, by dramatically increasing the number of tests using combinatorial pooling.