Amit Seker
Engineering Manager at Babel Street
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Seker is an engineering manager with 11 years of professional experience and a strong academic foundation in computer science (BS, UC Santa Barbara; MS, The Open University). He currently leads engineering at Babel Street after managing Rosette text analytics product development at Basis Technology, blending applied NLP research with product delivery. Amit has co-founded a startup (Comprendi) and sustained long-term research ties as a research assistant at Bar-Ilan University's ONLP lab, signaling a rare mix of entrepreneurial drive and ongoing scholarly engagement. He is comfortable scaling teams and systems for language-focused analytics products and has deep hands-on roots from senior engineering and QA roles earlier in his career. Based in Brookline, MA, he brings practical experience turning research insights into production-grade text analytics solutions and a track record of bridging R&D and commercial engineering.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 94/100, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 94/100 at The Open UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at UC Santa Barbara
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (33)
text-analytics10
text-mining10
entity-extraction9
rosette9
pytorch9
python9
fuzzy-matching9
lemmatization9
parser9
morphological-analysis9
dependency-parsing9
corenlp8
nlp8
client-library8
yap8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OnlpLab/HebrewResources
May 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
OnlpLab/yap
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022
Yet Another (natural language) Parser
Contributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 8 months
corenlpyet-anothernatural-languagesemantic-parsingnatural
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